Germaine Greer quotes - page 6

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. (Germaine Greer)
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. View quote
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I believe in permanent revolution. View quote
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The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. View quote
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There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all. View quote
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We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own. View quote
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It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys. View quote
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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives. View quote
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Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage. View quote
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It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation. View quote
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English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. (Germaine Greer)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When the burning and shivering stopped and I could see again only what was there, I stayed enthralled by clarity. View quote
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If Judith Leyster had not been in the habit of signing her work with the monogram JL attached to a star, a pun on the name her father had taken from his brewery, Leyster or Lodestar, her works might never have been reattributed to her. View quote
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In sex, as in consumption, the nuclear family emphasizes possession and exclusivity at the expense of the kinds of emotional relationships that work for co-operation and solidarity. View quote
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The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. View quote
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At no time did anyone throw his cap in the air and rejoice that another painter, capable of equalling Hals at his best, had been discovered. (Germaine Greer)
I hated being out of touch, isolated by the solipsism of delirium, unable to communicate or comprehend. View quote
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Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. View quote
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A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. View quote
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However diverse they may be, they need not be utterly irreconcilable, because they will not be conquistatorial. View quote
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