Quotes By Germaine Greer

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

It 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 found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Act quickly, think slowly.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

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.

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.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

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.

It'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'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.