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Inspirational Quotes by Germaine Greer
- A garden is the best alternative therapy.
- Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have…
- There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
- No sex is better than bad sex.
- Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
- Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
- Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
- I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
- The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ...
- Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
- Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
- The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
- Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
- Act quickly, think slowly.
- One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
- Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
- Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
- Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
- Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
- Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
- Security is the denial of life
- Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento