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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
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A Woman Might Claim To Retain Some Of The Child's Faculties, Although Very Limited And Defused, Simply Because She Has Not Been Encouraged To Learn Methods Of Thought And Develop A Disciplined Mind. As Long As Education Remains Largely Induction Ignorance Will Retain These Advantages Over Learning And It Is Time That Women Impudently Put Them To Work.
Time
Children
Ignorance
It Is In Our Interests To Let The Police And Their Employers Go On Believing That The Underground Is A Conspiracy, Because It Increases Their Paranoia And Their Inability To Deal With What Is Really Happening. As Long As They Look For Ringleaders And Documents They Will Miss Their Mark, Which Is That Proportion Of Every Personality Which Belongs In The Underground.
Believe
Long
Missing
Because Love Has Been So Perverted, It Has In Many Cases Come To Involve A Measure Of Hatred.
Love
Hatred
Cases
At The Same Time As Woman Was Becoming The Showcase For Wealth And Caste, While Men Were Slipping Into Relative Anonymity And "handsome Is As Handsome Does," She Was Emerging As The Central Emblem Of Western Art.
Art
Men
Doe
Two-up Is Australia's Very Own Way Of Parting A Fool And His Money.
Gambling
Two
Australia
I Have Always Been Principally Interested In Men For Sex. I've Always Thought Any Sane Woman Would Be A Lover Of Women Because Loving Men Is Such A Mess. I Have Always Wished I'd Fall In Love With A Woman. Damn.
Falling In Love
Sex
Men
Nature Herself Is Not Always Unambiguous. Sometimes A Girl Child May Have So Well-developed A Clitoris That It Is Assumed She Is A Boy. Likewise, Many Male Children May Be Underdeveloped, Or Their Genitals Deformed Or Hidden And It Is Assumed That They Are Girls.
Girl
Nature
Children
The Castration Of Women Has Been Carried Out In Terms Of A Masculine-feminine Polarity, In Which Men Have Commandeered All The Energy And Streamlined It Into An Aggressive Conquistadorial Power, Reducing All Heterosexual Contact To A Sadomasochistic Pattern.
Sex
Men
Energy
Most Women Still Need A Room Of Their Own And The Only Way To Find It May Be Outside Their Own Home.
Women
Home
Needs
What We Ought To See In The Agonies Of Puberty Is The Result Of The Conditioning That Maims The Female Personality In Creating The Feminine.
Agony
Creating
Personality
Every Time A Woman Makes Herself Laugh At Her Husband's Often-told Jokes She Betrays Him. The Man Who Looks At His Woman And Says 'what Would I Do Without You?' Is Already Destroyed.
Marriage
Husband
Women
Next Time Round Hitler Will Be A Machine.
Machines
Next
Next Time
Women Who Were Housewives, Who Were Pretty Miserable ... Felt Inspired By Her Book And Their Life Changed. They Didn't Become Megastars, But They Became A Librarian Or Something. I've Heard Women Say Again And Again When The Subject Of Germaine Comes Up: 'well, Her Book Changed My Life For The Better.' And They'll Be Modest Women Living Pretty Ordinary Lives, But Better Lives.
Life Changing
Book
Ordinary
Great Artists Are Products Of Their Own Time: They Do Not Spring Forth Fully Equipped From The Head Of Jove, But Are Formed By The Circumstances Acting Upon Them Since Birth. These Circumstances Include The Ambiance Created By The Other, Lesser Artists Of Their Own Time, Who Have All Done Their Part In Creating The Pressure That Forces Up An Exceptional Talent. Unjustly, But Unavoidably, The Very Closeness Of A Great Artist To His Colleagues And Contemporaries Leads To Their Eclipse.
Spring
Artist
Creating
We Still Make Love To Organs And Not People; That So Far From Realising That People Are Never More Idiosyncratic, Never More Totally There When They Make Love, We Re Never More Incommunicative, Never More Alone.
People
Making Love
Realising
The Treatment For Jaded Sensibilities Is Not To Shatter Them, After All.
Treatment
Jaded
Sensibility
Consensus Politics Means That You Cannot Afford To Give The Many-headed Beast, The Public, Anything To Vote Against, For Voting Against Is What Gargantuan Pseudodemocracy Has To Come Down To.
Mean
Giving
Voting
Once A Paper Admits Any Principle Of Censorship For Survival, The We-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer Kind Of Censorship, It Jeopardizes The Integrity Of Its Editorial Principle. It's Better To Print And Be Damned, Because You'll Be Damned Anyway.
Integrity
Survival
Principles
Most People Die In Improvised Circumstances Of Harassment And Confusion, Whether In Hospital Or Out Of It.
People
Confusion
Circumstances
The Element Of Heroic Maleness Had Always Been Present In The Concept Of The Artist As One Who Rides The Winged Horse Above The Clouds Beyond The Sight Of Lesser Men, A Concept Seldom Applied To Those Who Worked With Colours Until The Nineteenth Century. When The Inevitable Question Is Asked, "why Are There No Great Women Artists?" It Is This Dimension Of Art That Is Implied. The Askers Know Little Of Art, But They Know The Seven Wonders Of The Painting World.
Horse
Art
Men
The Goal Was 'every Child A Wanted Child'; It Should Also Have Been 'every Abortion A Wanted Abortion', But The Two Sides Of The Phony Debate Were Never To Meet.
Children
Two
Goal
If The Next Time Our Governments Propose To Make War On A Helpless Civilian Population We Were To Uncover Our Grief And Guilt Instead Of Our Anger, How Much Difference Might We Make?
War
Grief
Differences
Women Have Been Charged With Deviousness And Duplicity Since The Dawn Of Civilization So They Have Never Been Able To Pretend That Their Masks Were Anything But Masks. It Is A Slender Case But Perhaps It Does Mean That Women Have Always Been In Closer Contact With Reality Than Men: It Would Seem To Be The Just Recompense For Being Deprived Of Idealism.
Mean
Reality
Men
English Children Have Lost Their Innocence, For Their First Lessons Have Been In The Exploitation Of Their Adult Slave.
Children
Adults
Lessons
Born: January 29, 1939
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