Quotes By Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

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.

Marriage 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 laws.

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.

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.

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

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.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

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.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

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

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.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

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

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

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

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.