Quotation by Germaine Greer

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grassblade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist, writer. The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause, introduction (1991).

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