“...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
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather… — 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
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
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in… — 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
It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society… — 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
