Quotes By 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.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

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

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

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?

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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.

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.

Act quickly, think slowly.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

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

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

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

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