"Every human body has its optimum weight and……" — Germaine Greer
"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 function we deform them."
—
Germaine Greer
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
128 Quotes by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer has 128 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
-
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
-
A garden is the best alternative therapy.
-
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for…
-
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
-
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
-
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental…
-
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only…
-
As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones,…
-
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
-
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
-
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that…
See all 128 quotes by Germaine Greer »
More Aesthetic Quotes
This quote is filed under Aesthetic Quotes,
one of 445 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
-
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
— Paul Auster
-
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
-
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
-
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
-
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
-
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
-
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
-
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
-
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
-
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
-
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
See all 445 Aesthetic Quotes »