The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrรฉe of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.
Germaine GreerEven crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine GreerToo many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.
Germaine GreerMan is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine Greer