Australian - Activist | January 29, 1939 -
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer
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Act quickly, think slowly.
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
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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.
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
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Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
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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.
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
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Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
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