Ed Greer Quotes

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.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

Act quickly, think slowly.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft.

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

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

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

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

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.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

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.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

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.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

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

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

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

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

Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure of the object can be discerned.

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

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

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

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

We live in a very gynophobic society

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

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.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.