“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.” — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? — 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
In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and… — 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
How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if… — 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
