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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

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
Children, War, Love You

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Germaine Greer
War, Faces, Defeat
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption that the best man will win is not at all justified. It might equally be argued that the worst, the most unscrupulous man will win, although history will continue the absurd game by finding him after all the best man.

Germaine Greer
War, Winning, Men
Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer
Sex, Real, War

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

Germaine Greer
War, Grief, Differences
Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.228, Random House

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