"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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"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion."
-Germaine Greer
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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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"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
-Germaine Greer
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"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
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"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
-Jean Kerr
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