Germaine Greer Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden.
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
Deny a young boy the right to have a toy gun and you will suppress his destructive urges, and he will turn out to be a homosexual - or worse!
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.