Germaine Greer Quotes


The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. Germaine Greer Men 150
Youre only young once but you can be immature forever Germaine Greer Young adult 124
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Germaine Greer Communication 110
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer Revolution 106
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer Diwali 100
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. Germaine Greer Freedom 93
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 Bird 92
I think that testosterone is a rare poison. Germaine Greer Uncategorized 85
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? Germaine Greer Far 84
Above all for his merciless contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley blown to bits in Flanders in 1918 Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned. Germaine Greer Literary criticism 83
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 Children 83
There is no such thing as security. There never has been. Germaine Greer Security 83
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. Germaine Greer Women 82
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. Germaine Greer Humanity 80
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 death 77
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. Germaine Greer Innocence 71
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. Germaine Greer Women 69
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 Men 67
The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn. Germaine Greer Age 65
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. Germaine Greer Birth 63
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. Germaine Greer alone 60
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. Germaine Greer Basically 55
Every woman knows that regardless of all her other achievements she is a failure if she is not beautiful. Germaine Greer Body image 54
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. Germaine Greer Strangers 50
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer Security 48
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. Germaine Greer Essence 47
A garden is the best alternative therapy. Germaine Greer Uncategorized 46
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 Security 45
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. Germaine Greer Work 45
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. Germaine Greer Uncategorized 44
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. Germaine Greer Athlete 43
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. Germaine Greer Uncategorized 42
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. Germaine Greer Father 42
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. Germaine Greer Uncategorized 40
Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves. Germaine Greer Uncategorized 39
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 Home 38
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. Germaine Greer Tragedy 38
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. Germaine Greer Children 38
...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it even as a temporary measure is to betray it. Germaine Greer Feminism 38
Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is selfdeprecating he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement he is a ranter. Germaine Greer Politics 35
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. Germaine Greer Marriage 34
The real theater of the s*x war is the domestic hearth. Germaine Greer Uncategorized 32
Libraries are reservoirs of strength grace and wit reminders of order calm and continuity lakes of mental energy neither warm nor cold light nor dark.... In any library in the world I am at home unselfconscious still and absorbed. Germaine Greer Libraries 32
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. Germaine Greer Father 30

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