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" "Her love for him not militate against her love for other people, did not force itself
upon him when he did not invite it, did not belittle or destroy him,
even by mendacious praise. When he was dying she was there to
help him. This strange distant love-affair is only one example of how
many forms love might take if we had the foresight and the imagination
to rescue it from the stereotypes of our dying consumer culture.
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.
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Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to be professionals', for children manage to use up all the capital that is made available for the purpose, whatever proportion it may be of the family's whole income, just as housework expands to fill the time available.