Germaine Greer

The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred…

— Germaine Greer

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous…

— Germaine Greer

Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even…

— Germaine Greer

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

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides…

— Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

— Germaine Greer

“The Great Bitch is the deadly female, a worthy opponent for the omnipotent hero to exercise his powers upon and through. She…

— Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

— Germaine Greer

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

— Germaine Greer

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

— Germaine Greer

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual…

— Germaine Greer

“The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the…

— Germaine Greer

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

— Germaine Greer

“We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.”

— Germaine Greer

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and…

— Germaine Greer

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

— Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

— Germaine Greer

I believe in permanent revolution.

— Germaine Greer

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

— Germaine Greer

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you…

— Germaine Greer

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

— Germaine Greer

“In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by…

— Germaine Greer

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

— Germaine Greer

“The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that…

— Germaine Greer

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial…

— Germaine Greer