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Germaine Greer Quotes: Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
         

Perhaps 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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