Germaine Greer

Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather…

— Germaine Greer

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you…

— Germaine Greer

“A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because…

— Germaine Greer

“It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true meaning of the fairy…

— Germaine Greer

“Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him…

— Germaine Greer

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

— Germaine Greer

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

— Germaine Greer

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a…

— Germaine Greer

The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude…

— Germaine Greer

Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in…

— Germaine Greer

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

Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is…

— Germaine Greer

It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much…

— Germaine Greer

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and…

— Germaine Greer

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

— Germaine Greer

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial…

— Germaine Greer

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the…

— Germaine Greer

“As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is…

— Germaine Greer

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

Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars,…

— Germaine Greer

“Cunt-lapping, mother-fucking, and cock-sucking are words to provoke a sense of outrage. Being forced to play the role of a woman in…

— Germaine Greer

“The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that…

— Germaine Greer

“In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indication of aggressive sexuality. Men cultivate…

— Germaine Greer

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance…

— Germaine Greer

We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more…

— Germaine Greer

“I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in…

— Germaine Greer

Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even…

— Germaine Greer

“The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it.…

— Germaine Greer

In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when…

— Germaine Greer

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not…

— Germaine Greer

“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

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private…

— Germaine Greer