Quotes By Germaine Greer

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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.

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.

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.

Act quickly, think slowly.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

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

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

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

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.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

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.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

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.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

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.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.