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
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you… — 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
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.” — 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
“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those… — 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
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
