Germaine GreerThe drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology. ✨ Germaine Greer (1972). The female eunuch372Reflection
Germaine GreerPerhaps 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 (1972). The … ▶374ThoughtTruth
Germaine GreerI didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.374Truth
Germaine GreerIt'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 catch him in a defensive position, he'… ▶364Reading
Germaine GreerLibraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. ✨ Daddy,We Hardl… ▶353Thought
Germaine GreerSex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.342Thought
Germaine GreerWomanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard. ✨ Germaine Greer (1972). The fema… ▶353HumanityPolitics
Germaine GreerLove, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ✨ Germaine Greer (1972). The female eunu… ▶375LoveTime
Germaine GreerI grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.375Thought
Germaine GreerThe housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a l… ▶364Reading
Germaine GreerBollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.375Time
Germaine GreerProbably 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 (1970). The female eu… ▶343Love
Germaine GreerIt 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 mos… ▶332Reflection
Germaine GreerThe older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm tha… ▶321Love
Germaine GreerI have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd … ▶345LoveThought
Germaine GreerEvery woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. ✨ The Whole Woman. Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.323Reading
Germaine GreerIt 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 enterprise, Tennyson fou… ▶335Thought
Germaine GreerMarriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce la… ▶368Politics
Germaine GreerEvery 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 defo… ▶379DeathHumanity
Germaine GreerWomen over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. … ▶324LifeReading
Germaine GreerThe 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 in the rhetoric of a civil right.313SadnessTime
Germaine GreerWomen 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, they tell themselves that they … ▶369Humanity
Germaine GreerThe sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. ✨ Germaine Greer (1972). The female eunuch314Truth
Germaine GreerThe real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.281Love
Germaine GreerFreud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. ✨ The Female Eunuch (1970)292Sadness
Germaine GreerYet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could wal… ▶347Time
Germaine GreerWomen have very little idea of how much men hate them. ✨ Germaine Greer (1971). The female eunuch, McGraw-Hill Companies282Thought
Germaine GreerAct quickly, think slowly.315Thought
Germaine GreerEnergy 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 (1972). The female eu… ▶315HumanityPolitics
Germaine GreerI do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of stat… ▶326HumanityPoliticsThought
