“Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.”
“Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.”
Germaine Greer
“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch“Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.”
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.”
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch“Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”
Germaine Greer“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“Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. ”
Germaine Greer“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”
Germaine Greer“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.”
Germaine Greer“I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.”
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