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Germaine Greer, born on January 29, 1939, is a British journalist, writer, and scholar renowned for her profound insights into feminism and gender issues. Her seminal work, 'The Female Eunuch,' has had a significant impact on the feminist movement. Greer's contributions have sparked widespread discussions and debates on women's status and gender equality.

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“The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.”

Curves Human Body Bosoms

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.”

Love Has Beens Cases Hatred

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.”

Men Doe Art Wealth Becoming Men And Women Western Relative Handsome Emerging Anonymity Slipping Castes Emblems Showcase

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.”

Men Internet Men And Women Celebrate Forecasts Shipping

Author:Germaine Greer

“Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.”

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.”

Wells May Children Sometimes Girl Nature Boys Males Girl Child

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.”

Needs Revolution Consequence Disappear Militancy

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.”

Humans Sex Discovery Stress Sorry Release Triumph Isolation Involving

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“The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.”

Men Has Beens Energy Sex Term Patterns Contact Feminine Aggressive Masculine Reducing Polarity Castration

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.”

Made Play Work Concepts Labor Rewards Favors Contracts Possessed Employers Work And Play Cheap Labor

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, 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.”

People World May Behavior Resources Blind Conviction Assumption

Author:Germaine Greer

“It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.”

Believe Looks Long Interest Deals Missing Goes On Personality Happenings Increase Mark Police Proportion Conspiracy Documents Inability Employers Paranoia

Book:The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

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Born: January 29, 1939
Known for: Journalist
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