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
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. – 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
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…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. – Germaine Greer