Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“We can say the brotherhood of man, and pretend that we include the sisterhood of women, but we know that we don't.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“In 'The Female Eunuch' I argued that motherhood should not be treated as a substitute career; now I would argue that motherhood… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“A child must have care and attention, but that care and attention need not emanate from a single, permanently present individual. Children… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indication of aggressive sexuality. Men cultivate… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. — Germaine Greer Copy Share
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
