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Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

From Germaine Greer

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

From Germaine Greer

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

From Germaine Greer

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

From Germaine Greer

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

From Germaine Greer

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

From Germaine Greer

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

From Germaine Greer