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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. (Germaine Greer)
Security is the denial of life. View quote
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Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea. View quote
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. View quote
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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed. View quote
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Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nothing is more chilling than such a spectacle of unremitting self-sacrifice. This is a woman born to be abandoned by her ungrateful husband at the very pinnacle of success she helped to make for him, for a shameless hussy of nineteen. (Germaine Greer)
We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. View quote
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The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. View quote
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The failure of women to produce great works of art and all that can be explained in terms of this statement. Insofar as she escapes or rejects her conditioning, the little girl may excel in those kinds of intellectual activity that are called creative, but eventually she either capitulates to her conditioning, or the conflicts become so pressing that her efficiency is hampered. View quote
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In that mysterious dimension where the body meets the soul the stereotype is born and has her being. She is more body than soul, more soul than mind. To her belongs all that is beautiful, eve the very word beauty itself. All that exists, exists to beautify her. View quote
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This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write. View quote
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed. View quote
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The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the sexual object sought by all men, and all women. She is of neither sex for she herself has no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence. She need achieve nothing, for she is the reward of achievement. She need never give positive evidence of her moral character because virtue is assumed from her loveliness, and her passivity. View quote
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Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. View quote
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Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. View quote
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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. (Germaine Greer)
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. View quote
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How do we form ourselves into an activity-a force to improve the situation? I don't have the answers. I'm an academic-[we're] the most useless people in the world. View quote
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. View quote
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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. View quote
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