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All Quotes by author - Germaine Greer

" Act quickly, think slowly. "

" Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. "

" Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. "

" Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. "

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

" Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. "

" Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. "

" Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. "

" One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. "

" Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. "

" Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. "

" Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. "

" Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. "

" Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood. "

" Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. "

" The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. "

" The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. "

" There is no such thing as security. There never has been. "

" The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. "

" Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature. "

" 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. "

" Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves. "

" Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. "

" Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. "

" Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? "

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

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