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Germaine Greer on Women

born 1939 Australia

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Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it.

Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks.

The Female Eunuch (1970)

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

The Female Eunuch (1970)

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

The Female Eunuch (1970)

A woman's pleasure is not dependent upon the presence of a penis in the vagina; neither is a man's.

The Whole Woman (1999)

Sexism is here a misleading name for misogyny, which is distrust, hatred and contempt of women. And it's not just men who feel these feelings and act on them.

A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (1991)

Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

The Whole Woman (1999)

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

The Female Eunuch (1970)

The term eunuchs was used by Eldridge Cleaver to describe blacks. It occurred to me that women were in a somewhat similar position.

useful message to relay to young women about the perils of confusing sexual autonomy with the real but ephemeral ability to manipulate men.

The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the sexual object sought by all men, and all women. She is of neither sex for she herself has no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence.

The Female Eunuch (1970)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Germaine Greer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.