Germaine Greer
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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kicked
If she'd been a man, I would have kicked her in the ....
oxymoron
It's also an oxymoron because what we see is not real,
darts lethal playing
It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.
beatles biggest though tour
. Probably the biggest omission though is the Beatles tour 1964! Undoubtedly there are many more....
design independence rewards
It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.
human
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
age-and-aging fifty form girl groups grown land largest masquerade oppressed order others population reject remain structure themselves western woman women
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
insightful brain humans
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
husband live-life apology
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
women struggle joy
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
confession psychoanalysis absolution
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
mistake women answers
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.
women reality deviousness
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.
couple real struggle
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.