Germaine Greer quotes - page 2

Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and academic, recognized as a major voice of the feminist movement. Her book "The Female Eunuch" challenged traditional views on gender and sexuality. She continues to provoke debate through her work and public appearances. Here are 165 of her quotes:

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. (Germaine Greer)
Next time round Hitler will be a machine. View quote
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Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. View quote
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No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders. View quote
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Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him... View quote
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Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. View quote
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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. View quote
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. View quote
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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. (Germaine Greer)
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. View quote
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Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. View quote
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I think that testosterone is a rare poison. View quote
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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. View quote
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We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional. View quote
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How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women? View quote
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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. View quote
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. View quote
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The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more. View quote
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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. (Germaine Greer)
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. View quote
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Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. View quote
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. View quote
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There is no such thing as security. There never has been. View quote
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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer - Image
Photo: Helen Morgan, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Australian Writer
Born: January 29, 1939
Quotes count: 165
Wikipedia: Germaine Greer

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