Germaine Greer Quotes
We Could See That Our Mothers Blackmailed Us With Self-sacrifice, Even If We Did Not Know Whether Or Not They Might Have Been Great Opera Stars Or Toasts Of The Town If They Had Not Borne Us. In Our Intractable Moments We Pointed Out That We Had Not Asked To Be Born, Or Even To Go To An Expensive School. We Knew That They Must Have Had Motives Of Their Own For What They Did With Us And To Us. The Notion Of Our Parents' Self-sacrifice Filled Us Not With Gratitude But With Confusion And Guilt. We Wanted Them To Be Happy Yet They Were Sad And Deprived And It Was Our Fault.
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