Quotes By Germaine Greer

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

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.

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

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

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.