Quotes By Germaine Greer

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

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.

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

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 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.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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.

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.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Act quickly, think slowly.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

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?

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