Germaine Greer Quotes

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

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - ...

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a rea...

When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this...

The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, o...

I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thin...

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. ...

A child must have care and attention, but that care and attention need not emanate from a single, pe...

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish....

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change ...

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious in...

Thirty years on, femininity is still compulsory for women—and has become an option for men—while gen...

It is commonplace observation that women are forever trying to straighten their hair if it is curly ...

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish....

Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to thei...

...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fr...

If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this steril...

The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations ...

In some ways the operation of the feminine stereotype is so obvious and for many women entirely unat...

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we ...

The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a perma...

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If w...

We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class ch...

The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions ...

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...

We can say the brotherhood of man, and pretend that we include the sisterhood of women, but we know ...

Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotenc...

In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indic...

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligato...

It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must...

Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his...

Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appea something...

On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each ...

Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love pers...

It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true m...

As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of ...

Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she wi...

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every...

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy an...

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

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they ha...

Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy w...

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

The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman...

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

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no societ...

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person ...

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, thou...

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; foll...

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of...

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

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray...

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

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it ...

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would b...

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's...

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

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no societ...

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...

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

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulatio...

The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure pr...

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Lu...

In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy ...

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution i...

Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is cur...

Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationsh...

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of...

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independe...

The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotenc...

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction...

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be ...

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or...

Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like...

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to ...

In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both s...

What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at ...