Quotes from Germaine Greer

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

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?

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

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

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

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

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

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

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

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

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.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

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.

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.

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

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.