The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. — 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
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly… — 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
“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
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance… — 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
“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
“In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indication of aggressive sexuality. Men cultivate… — 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
Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have… — 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
“It is commonplace observation that women are forever trying to straighten their hair if it is curly and curl it if it… — 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
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
Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation… — 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
“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
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. — 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
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in… — 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
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
“The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard. — 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
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
![“It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.” quote by Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/349/germaine-greer-1521_childbearing_it-childbearing-was-never-intended-to-be_2588852.jpg)
