Ed Greer Quotes

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

Never become too good at something you hate, they'll make you do it the rest of your life.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

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

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got?

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

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

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

I can take more pain than anyone.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

Even Spartacus needs a coach.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

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

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.