46 Quotations by Germaine Greer
- 21. Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace an ...

- 22. Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities ...

- 23. Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy ...

- 24. Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just ...

- 25. Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except f ...

- 26. Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of li ...

- 27. The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and th ...

- 28. The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

- 29. The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for ...

- 30. The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated ...

- 31. The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it ...

- 32. The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, an ...

- 33. The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i ...

- 34. The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always ...

- 35. The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

- 36. The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution i ...

- 37. The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

- 38. There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They im ...

- 39. There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and ...

- 40. There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

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