Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Quote by Germaine Greer

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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it...

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it...

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are,...

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are,...

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy...

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy...

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a...

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a...

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem...

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem...

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about...

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about...

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in...

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in...

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it...

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it...

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he...

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he...

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the...

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the...

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone...

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone...

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only...

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only...

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of...

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of...

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

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

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit...

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit...

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not...

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not...