Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — 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… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“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 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
“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as 'in love' all the time despite the probability that very little… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — 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
