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
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. — 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
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
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not. — 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
![“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal. The intimacy between mother and child is not sustaining and healthy. The child learns to exploit his mother's accessibility, badgering her with questions and demands which are not of…” quote by Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae9/germaine-greer-1521_children_what-is-certain-is-that-he-the-baby-has_2457642.jpg)
