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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
— Germaine Greer
When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now.
— Germaine Greer
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
— Germaine Greer
There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
— Germaine Greer
I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
— Germaine Greer
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
— Germaine Greer
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
— Germaine Greer
The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden.
— Germaine Greer
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
— Germaine Greer
Deny a young boy the right to have a toy gun and you will suppress his destructive urges, and he will turn out to be a homosexual - or worse!
— Germaine Greer
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
— Germaine Greer
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
— Germaine Greer
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
— Germaine Greer
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
— Germaine Greer
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
— Germaine Greer
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
— Germaine Greer
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
— Germaine Greer
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
— Germaine Greer
My knees have always been ugly.
— Germaine Greer
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
— Germaine Greer
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
— Germaine Greer
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.
— Germaine Greer
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
— Germaine Greer
Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
— Germaine Greer
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
— Germaine Greer
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
— Germaine Greer
We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.
— Germaine Greer
Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.
— Germaine Greer
Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
— Germaine Greer
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
— Germaine Greer
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.
— Germaine Greer
Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.
— Germaine Greer
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
— Germaine Greer
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.
— Germaine Greer
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
— Germaine Greer
Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
— Germaine Greer
The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ...
— Germaine Greer
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
— Germaine Greer
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
— Germaine Greer
As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal.
— Caitlin Moran
Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.
— Germaine Greer
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
— Germaine Greer
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.
— Germaine Greer
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.
— Germaine Greer
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
— Germaine Greer
No sex is better than bad sex.
— Germaine Greer
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
— Germaine Greer
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
— Germaine Greer
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
— Germaine Greer
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
— Germaine Greer
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
— Germaine Greer
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
— Germaine Greer
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 rented room.
— Germaine Greer
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
— Germaine Greer
Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
— Germaine Greer
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 for them.
— Germaine Greer
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
— Germaine Greer
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
— Germaine Greer
Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial.
— Germaine Greer
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
— Germaine Greer
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
— Germaine Greer
A garden is the best alternative therapy.
— Germaine Greer
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.— Germaine Greer
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
— Germaine Greer
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
— Germaine Greer
Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.
— Germaine Greer
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer
Security is the denial of life
— Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
— Germaine Greer
We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.
— Germaine Greer
I believe in permanent revolution.
— Germaine Greer
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
— Germaine Greer
Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.
— Germaine Greer
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
— Germaine Greer
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
— Germaine Greer
The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
— Germaine Greer
If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got?
— Germaine Greer
Next time round Hitler will be a machine.
— Germaine Greer
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
— Germaine Greer
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
— Germaine Greer
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
— Germaine Greer
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 a subhumanly ugly mate?
— Germaine Greer
Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.
— Germaine Greer
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.
— Germaine Greer
The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.
— Germaine Greer
Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.
— Germaine Greer
