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
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it… — 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
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse… — 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
