We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in… — Germaine Greer
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.
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