Quotes by

Germaine Greer

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. – Germaine Greer

The blind conviction that we have to do something about other peoples reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. – Germaine Greer

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. – Germaine Greer

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. – Germaine Greer

There is no such thing as security. There never has been. – Germaine Greer

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it wont be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. – Germaine Greer

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. Its the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. – Germaine Greer

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. – Germaine Greer

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. – Germaine Greer

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. – Germaine Greer

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. – Germaine Greer

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves. – Germaine Greer

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

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it. – Germaine Greer

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

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women. – Germaine Greer

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. – Germaine Greer

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

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. – Germaine Greer