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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.
Germaine Greer
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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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I 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
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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.
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Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
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Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
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English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
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If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Germaine Greer
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Women 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.
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