“We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow… — 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
“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
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats,… — 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
It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in… — 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
“We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.” — 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
“It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal.… — 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 [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.” quote by Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/349/germaine-greer-1521_childbearing_it-childbearing-was-never-intended-to-be_2588852.jpg)
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