If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the mas… - Germaine Greer

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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.

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Alternative Names: Rose Blight • Dr. G Terf

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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

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