Robert Burns and Virginia Woolf were born on January 25. Colette and I have January 28. And on January 29 we have Germaine Greer, the controversial feminist.
‘Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
as quoted from “The Female Eunuch” in the article Romance in the Information Age.
September 17th, 2006
by Nannie
Ouch. That quote is killer. It’s filled with hurt and anger.
I think it’s a phase; the you can’t fire me, I quit,
guard your heart reaction to the relationship between men and women late in life.
I think I want to distance myself from all that and remain a humanist. Expect a
miracle,