"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."
-Germaine Greer
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"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.“
-Germaine Greer
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"The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth."
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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."
-Germaine Greer
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"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."
-Germaine Greer
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"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion."
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"Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws."
-Germaine Greer
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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