Germaine Greer

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

— Germaine Greer

“Sylvia Plath's greatest poetry was sometimes conceived while she was baking bread, she was such a perfectionist and ultimately such a fool.…

— Germaine Greer

“When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that…

— Germaine Greer

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it…

— Germaine Greer

“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

“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

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and…

— Germaine Greer

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

— Germaine Greer

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

— Germaine Greer

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is…

— Germaine Greer

“Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to…

— Germaine Greer

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

— Germaine Greer

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

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

— Germaine Greer

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

— Germaine Greer

“The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless…

— Germaine Greer

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind…

— Germaine Greer

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and…

— Germaine Greer

“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To…

— Germaine Greer

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

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

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as…

— Germaine Greer

“If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman,…

— Germaine Greer

Security is the denial of life

— Germaine Greer

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving…

— Germaine Greer