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“Nothing is more chilling than such a spectacle of unremitting self-sacrifice. This is a woman born to be abandoned by her ungrateful husband at the very pinnacle of success she helped to make for him, for a shameless hussy of nineteen.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Psychological Sell
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

Love: Egotism (p. 155) http://books.google.com/books?id=mhi0AAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22Man+is+jealous+because+of+his+amour%22+%22woman+is+jealous+because+of+her+lack+of+it%22&amp;pg=PA155 http://books.google.com/books?id=dtnbrx0pOI4C&amp;q=%22Man+is+jealous+because+of+his+amour+propre+woman+is+jealous+because+of+her+lack+of+it%22&amp;pg=PT170#v=onepage <br class="br">The Female Eunuch (1970)

“No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”

Germaine Greer

Newsnight Review (2009-07-24)

“Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him…”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Stereotype (p. 67)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Psychological Sell (p. 104)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”

Germaine Greer

Chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=7MGFAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22The+management+of+fertility+is+one+of+the+most+important%22+%22of+adulthood%22&amp;pg=PA40#v=onepage <br class="br">Sex and Destiny : The Politics of Human Fertility (1984)

“The failure of women to produce great works of art and all that can be explained in terms of this statement. Insofar as she escapes or rejects her conditioning, the little girl may excel in those kinds of intellectual activity that are called creative, but eventually she either capitulates to her conditioning, or the conflicts become so pressing that her efficiency is hampered.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Raw Material
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.”

Germaine Greer

Liberation (pg. 336)
The Whole Woman (1999)

“Doctors, lawyers and even accountants have always understood that they would have to stand firm, functioning as a solid group protecting its own expertise and hence its earning capacity, from the tendency of all merchants to buy cheap and sell dear. They made of their special knowledge a rare and valuable commodity, insisted on a mystique and protected each other by an immovable professional code. They were cynical enough to know that if they were once cast in the role of public martyrs, working harder and more generously than most other groups of workers, they would be left with nothing but masochism, exhaustion and despair to show for it. Like successful trade unions, who have always worked on the principle that the job is worth whatever you can force the employer to pay for it and not a penny more or less, they understood that nobody was going to pay them their fees out of gratitude, that if they left it to the man whose life they had saved to pay them what he thought fit, they would wind up with half an old penny.”

Germaine Greer

"'Unhelpful to the workers' cause'" [undated], p. 175
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.”

Germaine Greer

"Anxiety"
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)

“We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.”

Germaine Greer

Sorrow (pg. 183)
The Whole Woman (1999)

“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

Revolution
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.”

Germaine Greer

"A needle for your pornograph" (22 July 1971), p. 67
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“In that mysterious dimension where the body meets the soul the stereotype is born and has her being. She is more body than soul, more soul than mind. To her belongs all that is beautiful, eve the very word beauty itself. All that exists, exists to beautify her.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Stereotype
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.”

Germaine Greer

"Eternal war: Strindberg's view of sex" (3 June 1978), p. 207
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“The principle of the brotherhood of man is that narcissistic one, for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Ideal (p. 159)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

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

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

Security (p. 274)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.”

Germaine Greer

Work (pg. 136)
The Whole Woman (1999)

“Next time round Hitler will be a machine.”

Germaine Greer

"My Mailer problem" (September 1971), 83
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.”

Germaine Greer The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

Source: The Obstacle Race (1979), Chapter V: Dimension (p. 105)