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Germaine Greer (43)

Birth:	29th January, 1939
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Journalist

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• 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.

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• We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

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• The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic… for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

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• 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.

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• If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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• I have always been principally interested in men for s*x. 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.

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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.

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• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

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• English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

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• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it’s one of the most charming things about them.

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• Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

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• All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

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• Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

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• I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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• Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

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• Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won’t be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

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• One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

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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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• Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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