Best Germaine Greer Quotes
- The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad… Absurdum
- It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her… American
- I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt… All
- It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it… Along
- If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got… Baby
- Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the… Adopt
- Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without… Aesthetic
- Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the… Arms
- The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This… Ceremony
- Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother Exorcism
- I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring. Boring
- The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. Machismo
- So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could… Abort
- Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most… Cope
- Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time. Any
- The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology. Drug
- Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and… Always Come
- Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in… Accept
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by… Ahead
- I think that testosterone is a rare poison. Inspirational
- Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money. Australia
- Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they… Disgusted
- Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not… Advice
- If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness… Adoption
- Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual… Abandonment
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