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'Act quickly, think slowly.' -Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer Quick Facts
Nationality: Australian
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: None
Occupation: Writer, Lecturer, Commentator
Introducing Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th centuryJardine, Lisa. Growing up with Greer, The Guardian, March 7, 1999.Bone, Pamela. "Western sisters failing the fight", The Australian, March 8, 2007."Germaine Greer," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007..
Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and opposition. She is the author of Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); and The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991) and most recently Shakespeares Wife'' (2007).
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Germaine In Her Own Words
'Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.'
'The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.'
'Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.'
'Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?'
'Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.'
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- What's the point of fiction?
- I read books, and have never wanted not to. But I did like the response of Germaine Greer in the acc...
- A Fictional Play's Topic: Germaine Greer's Kidnapping
- It's a dressing down of feminism based on the real-life kidnapping of Germaine Greer eight years ago...
- Hot Summer Reading
- Stop by the library and pick up some great summer reads! Summer of 1787 by David O. Steward. Summer...
- After Greer, playwright has Sunday in her sight
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- Germaine Greer's fury
- One wonders f it was terribly diplomatic of Germaine Greer's agent, Leah Middleton, to have had...
- Germaine Greer foams at ‘insane
- Now Germaine Greer has derided as an ?insane reactionary? the latest writer with the temerity to...
- A Fictional Play's Topic: Germaine Greer's Kidnapping
- It's a dressing down of feminism based on the real-life kidnapping of Germaine Greer eight years...
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corebizstyle
Great lens on Germaine. 5* Denver Colorado Posted November 28, 2007 |
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poutine
Interesting woman. Posted November 17, 2007 |
