“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Many a… — 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
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is… — 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
The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. — 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
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman… — 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
