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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even tho

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

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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other peoples reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. – Germaine Greer

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Contraception, Birth Control
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Germaine Greer
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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. – Germaine Greer

Category:
Libraries
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Germaine Greer
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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. – Germaine Greer

Category:
sad
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Germaine Greer
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? – E. M. Cioran

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Tragedy

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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Tragedy

Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. – Franz Kafka

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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. – Susan B. Anthony

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