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Security
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There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
-Germaine Greer
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
-Germaine Greer
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Strangers
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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Tragedy
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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
-Germaine Greer
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Twentieth Century
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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.
-Germaine Greer
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Women
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Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
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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.
-Germaine Greer
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Maybe I couldn
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.
-Germaine Greer
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
-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.
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Books by and about Germaine Greer