Feminism Quotes by Germaine Greer

“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”

— Germaine Greer

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

— Germaine Greer

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

— Germaine Greer

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

— Germaine Greer

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

— Germaine Greer

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

— Germaine Greer

“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.”

— Germaine Greer

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving…

— Germaine Greer

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of…

— Germaine Greer

“Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake…

— Germaine Greer

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

“The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the…

— Germaine Greer

“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To…

— Germaine Greer

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

— Germaine Greer

“If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman,…

— Germaine Greer

Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that…

— Germaine Greer

“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as…

— Germaine Greer

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the…

— Germaine Greer

“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

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

“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

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that…

— Germaine Greer

“In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by…

— Germaine Greer

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation…

— Germaine Greer

I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have…

— Germaine Greer

“It is commonplace observation that women are forever trying to straighten their hair if it is curly and curl it if it…

— Germaine Greer

“The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend…

— Germaine Greer

“Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appea something that never could exist without a…

— Germaine Greer

It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these…

— Germaine Greer

“In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear…

— Germaine Greer

“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of…

— Germaine Greer

“It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly…

— Germaine Greer

“Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him…

— Germaine Greer

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

— Germaine Greer

“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

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

— Germaine Greer

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being…

— Germaine Greer

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

— Germaine Greer

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

— Germaine Greer

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained…

— Germaine Greer