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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century

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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
There's no such thing as security. There never has been.
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.
Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Greer: Transgender women are 'not women' - BBC Newsnight
Germaine Greer’s controversial views on rape
Germaine Greer on women's liberation, the trans community and her rape
Germaine Greer on Sex in 2023
Germaine Greer brings feminism to Australia (1972) | RetroFocus
Germaine Greer Gets Annoyed at Last Question at Town Bloody Hall
Germaine Greer on Adultery Being Acceptable | The Dick Cavett Show
Germaine Greer on Genderquake debate
Germaine Greer talks to Andrew Neil about childlessness | Is This Your Life? | 1995
Germaine Greer on the Death of Free Speech | Loose Women
Germaine Greer free speech row – Have I Got News for You: Series 50 Episode 5 – BBC One
Germaine Greer on Q&A: 'Women are encouraged to be frightened'
Germaine Greer Thinks Meghan Markle Will Run Away From the Royal Wedding | This Morning
Marriage Debate | Germaine Greer | Proposition
Germaine Greer's brutal advice for the Royal Family | 60 Minutes Australia
Germaine Greer Thinks It's Not Getting Any Easier to Be a Woman | Good Morning Britain
Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr.: Germaine Greer 2-27-73 "Women's Liberation"
Germaine Greer and David Susskind Clash In Heated Sexism Debate | The Dick Cavett Show
Tracey Ullman - Germaine Greer Booted from Bus
Germaine Greer in debate after publication of 'Female Eunuch', 1971
The 'Original Feminist' Shares Her Controversial Opinion on National Women's Day | GMB
Germaine Greer VS Jane Fonda | Loose Women
Germaine Greer interview | Feminist Movement | womanhood | Mavis Nicholson | Afternoon plus | 1984
Jeremy Isaacs 1995 interview with Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer on our "drugged" society, 1979: CBC Archives | CBC
On the Trans Issue Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer Women Making the First Move | The Dick Cavett Show
A fractured Royal family: Germaine Greer's prediction comes true | 60 Minutes Australia
Germaine Greer on anti-feminists, transgender and how equality feminism is not enough
Germaine Greer's 1972 Australian Interview, A Classic Moment in Feminist History
Germaine Greer's Response to Attack on Kate Millett
"The Role of Goddess Exists in the Fantasy of the Male Artist." - Powerful Speech by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer on rape and consent (extended interview)
Q&A Highlight - Why are you pleased you were born a woman?
Germaine Greer’s Advice for Young Women: “Be More Like the Hawk”
Germaine Greer interview (1999)
Tracey Ullman as Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer - Kissing your daughter goodnight is sexualizing children
Germaine Greer on Anarchist Feminism + A Critique of Greer's Bad Takes
Germaine Greer Discusses Feminism and Duck a l'Orange | Gordon Ramsay
Germaine Greer Meets the Archivists
Responding to Riley Grace Roshong attack on Germaine Greer
Julia Gillard on feminism and Germaine Greer | Interviews
Germaine Greer: Pornography perpetuates stereotypical notions of sex
Germaine Greer Wrong Think 😳
Germaine Greer tells Tony Abbott he's STUPID & gets Applause!
Transgender women are not women, get over it! - Germaine Greer schools illiterate BBC Reporter
Germaine Greer habla sobre sobre la diferencia entre sexo y género.
Germaine Greer's Controversial Article on Knickers | The Dick Cavett Show
Germaine Greer and William F. Buckley on Women's Liberation - 1973

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