Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust,…

Germaine Greer
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ✨ Germaine Greer (1972). The female eunuch
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