Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 5

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

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

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

Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

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.

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.

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.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

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.

It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.

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

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