Quotes By Germaine Greer

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.

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

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.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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.

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.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

I 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 fall in love with a woman. Damn.

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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 real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

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.

Yet 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 walk or how fast she could run?