Words matter. These are the best Germaine Greer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I’ve always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I’d fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley’s propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women’s Liberation.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband’s house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
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.
You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
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.
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.
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
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.
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require ‘educational practices and socializing agents’ even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people’s behavior from their earliest childhood.
I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Act quickly, think slowly.
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people’s behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you’re just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
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.
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
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.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
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.
