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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If she'd been a man, I would have kicked her in the ....
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. Probably the biggest omission though is the Beatles tour 1964! Undoubtedly there are many more....
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It's also an oxymoron because what we see is not real,
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It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.
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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.
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Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
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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.
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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.
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If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
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The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
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It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
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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.