“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because… — 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… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appea something that never could exist without a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.” — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“In 'The Female Eunuch' I argued that motherhood should not be treated as a substitute career; now I would argue that motherhood… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“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 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
“On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have… — 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
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
