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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. — Germaine Greer

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust. — Germaine Greer

Their vaginas were just ships passing in the night, stopping to pick up every dirty sailor. — K.F. Germaine

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. — Germaine Greer

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. — Germaine Greer

Rosie Germaine Mole. — Sue Townsend

There is no such thing as security. There never has been. — Germaine Greer

I think that testosterone is a rare poison. — Germaine Greer

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. — Germaine Greer

You cannot coach players into achieving something that they aren't committed to achieving. — Germaine Porche

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. — Germaine Greer

The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden. — Germaine Greer

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. — Germaine Greer

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! — Germaine Greer

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. — Germaine Greer

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. — Germaine Greer

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. — Germaine Greer

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard. — Germaine Greer

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. — Germaine Greer

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. — Germaine Greer

My knees have always been ugly. — Germaine Greer

Genius has no sex — Germaine De Stael

People who love do the impossible all the time. — Germaine Shames

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it. — Germaine Greer

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. — Germaine Greer

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time. — Germaine Greer

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer

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. — Germaine Greer

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'. — Germaine Greer

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. — Germaine Greer

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. — Germaine Greer

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. — Germaine Greer

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women. — Germaine Greer

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating. — Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. — Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. — Germaine Greer

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. — Germaine Greer

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money. — Germaine Greer

I believe in permanent revolution. — Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. — Germaine Greer

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. — Germaine Greer

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. — Germaine Greer

No sex is better than bad sex. — Germaine Greer

She's mine.
I mean, she's mine to fuck with. — K.F. Germaine

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible. — Germaine Greer

Men do not change. They unmask themselves. — Germaine De Stael

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. — Germaine Greer

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother — Germaine Greer

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. — Germaine Greer

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea. — Germaine Greer

As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal. — Caitlin Moran

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become. — Germaine Greer

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. — Germaine Greer

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ... — Germaine Greer

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. — Germaine Greer

Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men. — Germaine Greer

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
— Germaine Greer

A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm — Germaine De Stael

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. — Germaine Greer

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. — Germaine Greer

Sow good services, sweet rememberances will grow from them. — Germaine De Stael

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. — Germaine Greer

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. — Germaine Greer

Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial. — Germaine Greer

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. — Germaine Greer

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not. — Germaine Greer

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. — Germaine Greer

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred. — Germaine Greer

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact. — Germaine Greer

Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them. — Germaine Greer

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. — Germaine Greer

Security is the denial of life — Germaine Greer

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. — Germaine Greer

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own. — Germaine Greer

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. — Germaine Greer

I learn life from the poets. — Germaine De Stael

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. — Germaine Greer

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology. — Germaine Greer

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. — Germaine De Stael

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. — Germaine Greer

Next time round Hitler will be a machine. — Germaine Greer

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. — Germaine Greer

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight. — Germaine Greer

If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? — Germaine Greer

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. — Germaine Greer

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? — Germaine Greer

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself. — Germaine Greer

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever — Germaine Greer

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity. — Germaine Greer

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. — Germaine Greer

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet. — Germaine Greer

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. — Germaine Greer

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. — Germaine Greer

A garden is the best alternative therapy. — Germaine Greer

Nothing comes to a "sleeper" but a "dream"...wake up! — Frederick Germaine

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. — Germaine Greer

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. — Germaine Greer