“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
“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
“In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by… — 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
“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
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
“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
“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as… — 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
“We can say the brotherhood of man, and pretend that we include the sisterhood of women, but we know that we don't.… — 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
“Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They… — 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
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