29 January: Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer, Australian feminist author whose books include The Female Eunuch. was born 80 years ago today in 1939. Here are 10 quotes from her:

1. A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
2. You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
3. Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
4. The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
5. Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
6. The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
7. Act quickly, think slowly.
8. Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.
9. War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
10. One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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