01c. 1939 ADWomen 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.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
02c. 1939 ADNever advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
04c. 1939 ADLibraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
05c. 1939 ADAll 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1939 ADMarriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
07c. 1939 ADThe sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
08c. 1939 ADI didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
09c. 1939 ADI 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.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
11c. 1939 ADMan is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
12c. 1939 ADWomen 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1939 ADFreedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.Germaine Greer / quote ↗
