The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer
The compelled mother loves ...
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Germaine Greer
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
Germaine Greer
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
Germaine Greer
