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Everything at Amazon by and about: Germaine GreerRevolution is the festival of the oppressed Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says "What would I do without you?" is already destroyed. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution There is no such thing as security. There never has been Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. 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 Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. Act quickly, think slowly The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk. 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 You're only young once, but you can be immature forever Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate The essence of pleasure is spontaneity 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 Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. I think that testosterone is a rare poison Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all 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 The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy and envy Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. 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 4
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