Germaine Greer
Born
in Melbourne, Australia
January 29, 1939
Genre
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The Female Eunuch
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41 editions
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published
1970
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The Whole Woman
13 editions
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published
1999
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Shakespeare's Wife
21 editions
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published
2007
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On Rape
20 editions
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published
2010
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The Beautiful Boy
15 editions
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published
2003
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The Change: Women, Ageing, and the Menopause
28 editions
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published
1992
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Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
23 editions
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published
1986
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White Beech: The Rainforest Years
8 editions
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published
2013
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The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
26 editions
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published
1979
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Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
19 editions
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1984
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“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 ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
― Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
― Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
“Maybe I couldn’t make it. Maybe I don’t have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky arse, a sexy voice. Maybe I don’t know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I’m sick of the masquerade. I’m sick of pretending eternal youth. I’m sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I’m sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I’m sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I’m sick of the Powder Room. I’m sick of pretending that some fatuous male’s self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I’m sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I’m sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.”
― The Female Eunuch
― The Female Eunuch
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