Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. — 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
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women… — 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… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. 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
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of… — 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
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private… — 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
