Act quickly, think slowly.
Germaine Greer

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.
Germaine Greer

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
Germaine Greer

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

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

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

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

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
Germaine Greer

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Germaine Greer


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

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Germaine Greer

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Germaine Greer

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Germaine Greer

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine Greer

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.
Germaine Greer

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

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.
Germaine Greer

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.
Germaine Greer