Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
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"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
Germaine Greer
"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
"Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it."
Germaine Greer
"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
Germaine Greer
"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
"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."
Germaine Greer
"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
Germaine Greer
"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion."
Germaine Greer
"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
"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
"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."
Germaine Greer
"The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth."
Germaine Greer
"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."
Germaine Greer
"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."
Germaine Greer
"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
"Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity."
Germaine Greer
"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
"Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home."
Germaine Greer
"The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy."
Germaine Greer
"A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices."
Germaine Greer
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