Quotes from Germaine Greer

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.

Security is the denial of life

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

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

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.

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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.

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

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

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.

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.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

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

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

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

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

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

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

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.

Security is the denial of life

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.