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Quotes from The Madwoman's Underclothes — Germaine Greer

born 1939 Australia

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I hated being out of touch, isolated by the solipsism of delirium, unable to communicate or comprehend.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

When the burning and shivering stopped and I could see again only what was there, I stayed enthralled by clarity.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

In sex, as in consumption, the nuclear family emphasizes possession and exclusivity at the expense of the kinds of emotional relationships that work for co-operation and solidarity.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

Next time round Hitler will be a machine, developed by male conquest as the most efficient method of subduing the peoples of the earth. Our only hope is that we have yet time to breed a generation which cannot be ruled in such a way or seek such a way to rule.

The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

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