Best quotes by Germaine Greer on Women

Checkout quotes by Germaine Greer on Women

• ‟ Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

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• ‟ Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

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• ‟ The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

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• ‟ The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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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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• ‟ It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

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• ‟ Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

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