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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Germaine Greer
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Never 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.
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Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
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There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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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
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