Female Quotes by Germaine Greer

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

— Germaine Greer

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

“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

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

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

— 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

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

— Germaine Greer

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

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

“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”

— Germaine Greer

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

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

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

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

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