#gh

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? ↗

— Germaine Greer

#ever #far #fast #go #got

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#athlete #barriers #competitive #crash #demands

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#may #night #path #reach #save

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#creating #female #feminine #ought #personality

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#advise #anyone #brings #children #down

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#any #because #been #damn #fall

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. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#away #catastrophe #deal #energy #environment

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#assumption #been #brotherhood #grounds #love

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#attorney general #because #clients #doing #general

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aid #appreciation #bringing #countries #defending