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Germaine Greer
January 29, 1939 -
Nationality: Australian
Category: Activist

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

   

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

   

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

   

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.

   

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

   

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

   

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

   

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

   

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

   

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

   

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

   

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.

   

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

   

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

   

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

   

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