You're only young once, but you can be immature forever

Germaine Greer

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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer


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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Germaine Greer


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Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

Germaine Greer


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Security is the denial of life

Germaine Greer


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It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role

Germaine Greer


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Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Germaine Greer

Tags: politics australia julia-gillard kevin-rudd



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Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned.

Germaine Greer

Tags: literary-criticism dh-lawrence banned-books 1918 battle-of-the-lys-1918 lady-chatterley-s-lover



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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Germaine Greer

Tags: self-esteem beauty society body-image weight



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...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

Tags: freedom feminism



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