50s (age)

Australia

autumn

Englishman

Ernest Hemingway

female eunich

gambling

garden

high heels

incest

library

loneliness

love

machismo

man (male)

management

marketing

marriage

maximum security prison

mother

oral sex

revolution

security

spontaneity

suicide

Sydney

wife swapping

woman

nationality

Australian

occupation / innovator as

feminist

second-wave feminist

innovator in the field of

second-wave feminism

professor

academician

essayist

journalist

actor

critic

screenwriter

feminism

religion

atheism

gender studies

broadcaster

English literature

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

is golden, mild and warm, and is the most productive season of the year.

The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

is one who, even crushed against his brother in the tube, pretends desperately that he is alone.

Even crushed against his brother in the tube, the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

is not as frequently done by women because their total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Women don't gamble as much as men because their total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

is a reservoir of strength, grace and wit, a reminder of order, calm and continuity, a lake of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

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.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

is the drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

1s 2ragedy is that a man is never quite man enough.

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

is the art of taking credit for other people's work.

The art of management is the art of taking credit for other people's work.

Oral sex is like being attacked by a giant snail.

is when everything is settled. It is when nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you... security is the denial of life.

is notable by the smell of the sea, the sound of the birds, and the feeling that the sky is a million miles away, in contrast to europe where the sky sits on your head like a grey felt hat.

Once a week, at least once a week, I dream about Sydney. I know it is a Sydney dream, first of all, because ol the smells the smell of the sea, the smell of the frangipani because of the sounds the sounds of the birds crying and because ofthe feeling that the sky is so far away. In Europe, the sky sits on your head like a grey felt hat... in Australia, the sky is a million miles away and all that lies beneath it belongs to you. in Cities, John McGreey GREER, Germaine (1939 )

is like a form of incest in which nobody's more guilty than anybody else.

Wife swapping is like a form of incest in which nobody's more guilty than anybody else

is forced to become submissive in order to fulfill male fantasies of what being a woman entails.

women are forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfill male fantasies of what being a woman entails.

is such that women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Germaine Greer

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