Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed … - Germaine Greer

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If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.

Germaine Greer

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

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I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2. 4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

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

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

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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.

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

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If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.

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