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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Festival Oppressed Revolution

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The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Being Employee Her House Husband Permanent Return Security Unpaid Wife

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

~Germaine Greer

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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?

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Could Ever Far Fast Go Got Her Herself How How Far Know Lets Might Never Off Run She Shoes Takes Walk Will Woman

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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.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Disgusted Fact Following Lead Men Most Never Often Sad Themselves Women Women Are

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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.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Agents Been Behavior Burden Childhood Earliest Educational Effective Even Female Going Guilt Humans More Other People Practices Relentlessly Require Responsibility Socializing Than Unwarranted Women

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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Beings Human Human Beings Inalienable Invent Right Themselves

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What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Conditioning Creating Female Feminine Ought Personality Puberty Result See

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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.

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Always Been Being Closer Contact Deprived Idealism Just Men Perhaps Reality Seem Than Women Would

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

~Germaine Greer

Topics: Hate How How Much Idea Little Men Much Them Very Women

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Activist

Born: January 29th, 1939

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