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“Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.”

"The million-dollar Underground" (July 1969), p. 15
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.”

Housework (pg. 141)
The Whole Woman (1999)

“The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people’s reproductive behaviour, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.”

Source: Sex and Destiny : The Politics of Human Fertility (1984), Chapter 14

“This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write.”

"Recantation"
The Whole Woman (1999)

“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”

Article "Abortion", The Sunday Times, 21 May 1972

“Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.”

"Not a time to die" (3 December 1972), p. 147
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.”

"The Big Tease" (October 1972), p. 138
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.”

"The Wet Dream Film Festival" (1971), p. 57
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?”

Estrogen (pg. 160)
The Whole Woman (1999)

“Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.”

"A groupie's vision" (October 1969), p. 10
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)

“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. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.”

"Still in Melbourne, January 1987", as quoted in [Fred R Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC, 2006, Yale University Press, 0-300-10798-6, 324]
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)

“How do we form ourselves into an activity—a force to improve the situation? I don't have the answers. I'm an academic—[we're] the most useless people in the world.”

FemiFest radical feminist conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7b59mFyREY&t=9m25s, London (31 August 2014)

“The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the sexual object sought by all men, and all women. She is of neither sex for she herself has no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence. She need achieve nothing, for she is the reward of achievement. She need never give positive evidence of her moral character because virtue is assumed from her loveliness, and her passivity.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Stereotype
The Female Eunuch (1970)