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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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“Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.”

Way Feels Humans Achieve Treats Shame Refuse Rejects No Hope Stigma Stature

Author:Germaine Greer

“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.”

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Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

“Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.”

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“Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.”

Humans Human Beings Self Discovery Inalienable Rights

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“Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.”

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.”

Humans Human Beings Brain Insightful Washing

Author:Germaine Greer

“Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.”

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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

Author:Germaine Greer

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Born: January 29, 1939
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