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title: "2 High Heeled Quotes By Germaine Greer"
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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/the-high-heeled-shoe-is-a-marvellously-contradictory-item-it-brings-a/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/yet-if-a-woman-never-lets-herself-go-how-will-she-ever-know-how-far/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

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## More by Germaine Greer

> [You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/you-re-only-young-once-but-you-can-be-immature-forever/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/is-it-too-much-to-ask-that-women-be-spared-the-daily-struggle-for/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/female-castration-results-in-concentration-of-her-feelings-upon-her/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/women-have-been-charged-with-deviousness-and-duplicity-since-the-dawn/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/psychologists-cannot-fix-the-world-so-they-fix-women/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/bras-are-a-ludicrous-invention-but-if-you-make-bralessness-a-rule-you/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/the-essence-of-pleasure-is-spontaneity/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/if-a-person-loves-only-one-other-person-and-is-indifferent-to-his/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/gillard-is-as-likeable-as-rudd-is-charmless-she-is-self-deprecating/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/liberty-is-terrifying-but-it-is-also-exhilarating/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/it-is-often-falsely-assumed-even-by-feminists-that-sexuality-is-the/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/women-who-were-housewives-who-were-pretty-miserable-felt-inspired-by/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/it-is-in-our-interests-to-let-the-police-and-their-employers-go-on/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/rescuing-women-from-their-burden-of-unwarranted-guilt-is-going-to/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

> [Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/men-have-still-not-realized-that-letting-women-do-so-much-of-the-work/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

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