List of Germaine Greer Quotes

A Woman Might Claim To Retain Some Of The Child's Faculties, Although Very Limited And Defused, Simply Because She Has Not Been Encouraged To Learn Methods Of Thought And Develop A Disciplined Mind. As Long As Education Remains Largely Induction Ignorance Will Retain These Advantages Over Learning And It Is Time That Women Impudently Put Them To Work.

It Is In Our Interests To Let The Police And Their Employers Go On Believing That The Underground Is A Conspiracy, Because It Increases Their Paranoia And Their Inability To Deal With What Is Really Happening. As Long As They Look For Ringleaders And Documents They Will Miss Their Mark, Which Is That Proportion Of Every Personality Which Belongs In The Underground.

Because Love Has Been So Perverted, It Has In Many Cases Come To Involve A Measure Of Hatred.

At The Same Time As Woman Was Becoming The Showcase For Wealth And Caste, While Men Were Slipping Into Relative Anonymity And "handsome Is As Handsome Does," She Was Emerging As The Central Emblem Of Western Art.

Two-up Is Australia's Very Own Way Of Parting A Fool And His Money.

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.

Nature Herself Is Not Always Unambiguous. Sometimes A Girl Child May Have So Well-developed A Clitoris That It Is Assumed She Is A Boy. Likewise, Many Male Children May Be Underdeveloped, Or Their Genitals Deformed Or Hidden And It Is Assumed That They Are Girls.

The Castration Of Women Has Been Carried Out In Terms Of A Masculine-feminine Polarity, In Which Men Have Commandeered All The Energy And Streamlined It Into An Aggressive Conquistadorial Power, Reducing All Heterosexual Contact To A Sadomasochistic Pattern.

Most Women Still Need A Room Of Their Own And The Only Way To Find It May Be Outside Their Own Home.

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.

Every Time A Woman Makes Herself Laugh At Her Husband's Often-told Jokes She Betrays Him. The Man Who Looks At His Woman And Says 'what Would I Do Without You?' Is Already Destroyed.

Next Time Round Hitler Will Be A Machine.