Australian - Activist | January 29, 1939 -
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
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There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
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Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
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