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The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

Germaine Greer
Struggle, Joy, Achievement
Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.19, Harper Collins

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

Germaine Greer
Couple, Real, Struggle
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer
Women, Struggle, Joy
Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

Germaine Greer
Women, Struggle, Order
The Female Eunuch (1970)

In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

Germaine Greer
Struggle, Motherhood, Umbilical Cord
"The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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