Frasi di Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer è una scrittrice e giornalista australiana, considerata da molti una delle maggiori voci del femminismo del XX secolo. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Gennaio 1939
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Germaine Greer Frasi e Citazioni

“Diventare madre senza volerlo significa vivere come una schiava o un animale domestico.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 157. ISBN 9788858022900

Germaine Greer: Frasi in inglese

“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)

“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)

“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)

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