"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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"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.“
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
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"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
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