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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Germaine Greer
Love, Women, Eye

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
Love, Running, High Heels

The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

Germaine Greer
Love, Mother, Father
Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Germaine Greer
Love, Women, Hair

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

Germaine Greer
Love, Drug, Sexuality
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Germaine Greer
Love, Women, Heart
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Germaine Greer
Love, Taken, Parenting
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

Germaine Greer
Love, Sexy, Lust
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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
Love, Men, Brotherhood Of Man
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Germaine Greer
Love, Broken Heart, Kissing
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

Germaine Greer
Love, Hatred, Cases
Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.15, Harper Collins

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