Germaine Greer quotes - page 5

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:

Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men. (Germaine Greer)
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it. View quote
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Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite. View quote
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The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity. View quote
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Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. View quote
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I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring. View quote
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There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. View quote
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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. View quote
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The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation. View quote
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Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. View quote
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Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before. (Germaine Greer)
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality? View quote
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Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. View quote
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The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology. View quote
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A garden is the best alternative therapy. View quote
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If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible. View quote
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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them. View quote
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Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor. View quote
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Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them. (Germaine Greer)
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. View quote
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Man made one grave mistake in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all it is time for the demolition to begin. View quote
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We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. View quote
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A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. 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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