Germaine Greer

Act quickly, think slowly.

— Germaine Greer

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

— Germaine Greer

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

— Germaine Greer

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

— Germaine Greer

I believe in permanent revolution.

— Germaine Greer

No sex is better than bad sex.

— Germaine Greer

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

— Germaine Greer

Security is the denial of life

— Germaine Greer

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

— Germaine Greer

“Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.”

— Germaine Greer

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

— Germaine Greer

“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”

— Germaine Greer

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

— Germaine Greer

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

— Germaine Greer

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

— Germaine Greer

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

— Germaine Greer

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats,…

— Germaine Greer

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

— Germaine Greer

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any…

— Germaine Greer

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy,…

— Germaine Greer

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind…

— Germaine Greer

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never…

— Germaine Greer

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

— Germaine Greer

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a…

— Germaine Greer

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The…

— Germaine Greer

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away…

— Germaine Greer

“When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that…

— Germaine Greer

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they…

— Germaine Greer

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and…

— Germaine Greer

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and…

— Germaine Greer

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that…

— Germaine Greer

“Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They…

— Germaine Greer

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those…

— Germaine Greer

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation…

— Germaine Greer

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

— Germaine Greer

“The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as 'in love' all the time despite the probability that very little…

— Germaine Greer

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are…

— Germaine Greer

“In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear…

— Germaine Greer

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure…

— Germaine Greer

“The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless…

— Germaine Greer