Best Germaine Greer Words
- Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature. Achieve
- Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the… Coalition
- It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private… Difficulty
- It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't… Absolutely
- Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also… Authorities
- Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are… Amid
- Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have… Agents
- The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize… Assumption
- We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children,… Afford
- Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect,… Apology
- A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. Book
- Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the… All
- Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of… Ask
- I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… Action
- Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… All
- Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. Beings
- Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. Cannot Tolerate
- Security is the denial of life Denial
- 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 ranter. Charmless
- Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. Achievement
- Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a… Any
- Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. Ability
- It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference… Admitted
- We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when… Alone
- The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed… Abortion
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