Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman ... -Germaine Greer

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Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer , Activist
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Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgust...
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 chil...
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature....
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it....
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the...
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover....
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When I tried out for cheerleader, they sneered, 'You're too good, kid,' and put me in the high-kick line instead. It was pure jealousy, if you ask me....
Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation....
Jealousy is a natural feeling, even when your happy for the person and you love them....
I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me....
Jealousy isn't something I do. I am not a jealous person....
There's so much jealousy in our business. They don't like anything new or different. They don't like change....
People want a story - and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexit...
We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed....
When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy....
Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system th...