Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship,…

Quote by Germaine Greer

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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

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...

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...

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice...

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice...

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the...

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the...

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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...

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...

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the...

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the...

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure,...

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure,...

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...

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...

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men,...

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men,...

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

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...

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 catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal...

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal...

Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.

Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course...

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course...

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human...

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human...

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite...

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite...