Home Quote by Germaine Greer Download Open image “In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.” — Germaine Greer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home Librarian Libraries and librarians Library Reservoirs Stills World
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in the library.' — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about connection. Connection… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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 personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something… — Germaine Greer Copy Share
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
![“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed." [ Still in Melbourne January 1987 ]” quote by Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/342/germaine-greer-1521_home_libraries-are-reservoirs-of-strength-gra_3143593.jpg)
![“I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.” [ Woman's Day magazine, March 12, 2002]” quote by Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/41e/tracy-chevalier-7345_bliss_i-find-that-when-i-come-out-of-the-libra_3078988.jpg)
![“I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.” quote by Jane Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07c/jane-powell-36243_away-from-home_i-don-t-like-being-away-from-home-that-s_278.jpg)
