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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darts lethal playing
It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.
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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,
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. 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.
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In our society, the pre-adolescent girl, the nubile virgin, the sexually active woman, the mother and the grandmother are all expected to look and behave in the same way. The correct body outline for them all is girlish; their voices should remain sweet and low, their manner accommodating. ... Kicking off leg-lengthening high-heeled shoes, wiping the colored grease off your lips, raising your voice, letting the grey come through your hair, ceasing the simper that lifts your cheeks and letting your jowls settle into disapproving shapes is seen as letting yourself go.
father freud mother
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
human
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
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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.
peace diversity culture
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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.
pain frustration generosity
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.
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Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.