Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Germaine Greeris an Australian-born writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions, specializing in English literature, at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 January 1939
CountryAustralia
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time children ignorance
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.
determination women mean
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
necks bosoms
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.
husband wife house
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
fighting feminism boards
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
hate men ideas
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
women female remember
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
ideas monogamy lifelong
Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.
marriage jobs
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
curves human-body bosoms
The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ...
world slavery abandonment
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
cooking frightened
Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
pussy world slavery
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.
sex organization personality
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role