"If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?"

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Source : 1970 The Female Eunuch,'Soul: Womanpower'.

Germaine Greer

#Running Quotes #Animal Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.”
“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”
“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”
“The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.”
“Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.”
“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”
“And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.”
“I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.”

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