Germaine Greer Quotes
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.
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.
We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.
The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.
Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.
Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.
Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.
It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.
We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.
Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.
Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn their passion ultimately to duty.
The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.
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.
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.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.