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Germaine Greer Quotes

«Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?»
«Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate»
«I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.»
Author: Germaine Greer | Keywords: mess, principally, wished
«Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.»
«The essence of pleasure is spontaneity»
Author: Germaine Greer | About: Pleasure, Spontaneity | Keywords: spontaneity
«You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.»
Author: Germaine Greer | Keywords: immature
«Revolution is the festival of the oppressed»
Author: Germaine Greer | About: Revolution | Keywords: festival, festivals, oppressed
«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.»
«Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.»
«The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.»

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