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Germaine Greer (/ɡrɪər/; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions, specializing in English literature, at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge.

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The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.

Art, Clouds, Horse, Men, Present, Question

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Marriage, Jobs, Job, Become

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

Australia, Fool, Gambling, Parting, Two, Way

Security is the denial of life

Denial, Life, Security

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Caged, Children, Love, Loves, Mother, Song

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Angel, Call, Cherish, Greatest, Men, Secret

Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

Employer, Favors, Labor, Play, Unless, Work

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Dark, Lakes, Light, Reservoirs, Strength

Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable. . . felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better. ' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

Life Changing, Book, Ordinary, Women, Miserable, Megastars

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

Women, Home, Needs, Room, Way

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Love, Parenting, Pattern, Sanctioned, Taken

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.

Hair, Love, Older, Slap, Transvestites, Women

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

Conditioning, Female, Girlishness, Perpetual, Remember, Women

The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.

Communication, Community, Strong, Words

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Become, Body, Conscious, Delight, Men, Ought

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

Achievement, Hilarity, Joy, Sense, Struggle

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.

Agony, Creating, Personality, See, Feminine

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Charmless, Gillard, Likeable, Mistress, Ranter, Self

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

Adoption, Emancipation, Lost, Roles, Understand, Women

When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now.

Naked, Protest, Strong, Think, Thinking, Young

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