Germaine Greer citations (73 citations, Page 2)

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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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The Times, London (1986-02-01)

“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

“Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

“Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

“… the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

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

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

p. 263 http://books.google.com/books?ei=7hdeUeCtEOGmiQLnu4HYBg&id=x88du4E7ARAC&dq=%22The+Female+Eunuch%22+1971&q=%22hate+them%22#search_anchor Often paraphrased as: "women have no idea how much men hate them." The Female Eunuch (1970)

“In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.”

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Mothers (pg. 209)
The Whole Woman (1999)

“If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?”

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Sorrow (pg. 189)
The Whole Woman (1999)

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

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

Womanpower (p. 128)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“Nothing is more chilling than such a spectacle of unremitting self-sacrifice. This is a woman born to be abandoned by her ungrateful husband at the very pinnacle of success she helped to make for him, for a shameless hussy of nineteen.”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

The Psychological Sell
The Female Eunuch (1970)

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

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

Love: Egotism (p. 155) http://books.google.com/books?id=mhi0AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Man+is+jealous+because+of+his+amour%22+%22woman+is+jealous+because+of+her+lack+of+it%22&pg=PA155 http://books.google.com/books?id=dtnbrx0pOI4C&q=%22Man+is+jealous+because+of+his+amour+propre+woman+is+jealous+because+of+her+lack+of+it%22&pg=PT170#v=onepage The Female Eunuch (1970)

“No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”

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Newsnight Review (2009-07-24)

“Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him…”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

The Stereotype (p. 67)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

The Psychological Sell (p. 104)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”

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Chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=7MGFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+management+of+fertility+is+one+of+the+most+important%22+%22of+adulthood%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage Sex and Destiny : The Politics of Human Fertility (1984)

“The failure of women to produce great works of art and all that can be explained in terms of this statement. Insofar as she escapes or rejects her conditioning, the little girl may excel in those kinds of intellectual activity that are called creative, but eventually she either capitulates to her conditioning, or the conflicts become so pressing that her efficiency is hampered.”

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Germaine Greer livre The Female Eunuch

The Raw Material
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.”

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Liberation (pg. 336)
The Whole Woman (1999)

“Doctors, lawyers and even accountants have always understood that they would have to stand firm, functioning as a solid group protecting its own expertise and hence its earning capacity, from the tendency of all merchants to buy cheap and sell dear. They made of their special knowledge a rare and valuable commodity, insisted on a mystique and protected each other by an immovable professional code. They were cynical enough to know that if they were once cast in the role of public martyrs, working harder and more generously than most other groups of workers, they would be left with nothing but masochism, exhaustion and despair to show for it. Like successful trade unions, who have always worked on the principle that the job is worth whatever you can force the employer to pay for it and not a penny more or less, they understood that nobody was going to pay them their fees out of gratitude, that if they left it to the man whose life they had saved to pay them what he thought fit, they would wind up with half an old penny.”

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"'Unhelpful to the workers' cause'" [undated], p. 175
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)