The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast… — 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 is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
