[...] there is evidence that educated women throughout the ages were particularly loath to submit to male sovereignty: as now, it was most frequently… - Germaine Greer

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[...] there is evidence that educated women throughout the ages were particularly loath to submit to male sovereignty: as now, it was most frequently the education that was found at fault, and not the male sovereignty.

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About Germaine Greer

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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Compulsory motherhood is not ennobling, although the friends of the foetus are at pains to point out that most women denied abortions end up loving their issue just the same. Whether they love them just the same as they would have if they had wanted them is of course unverifiable; most women are not so perverse and unjust as to punish their children for the crimes of society (their fathers), but the oppression of their circumstances is real notwithstanding. For the oppressors themselves to take credit for the women's magnanimity is sickeningly smug. The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

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

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