Germaine Greer Quotes

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

Loneliness, Someone, Felt

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer

Young, Immature, Once

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

Men, Care, Sense

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

Husband, Wife, Her

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

Pain, Spiritual, May

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

Women, Death, Society

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

Died, Evolution, Charming

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

Freedom, Sacrifice, Betray

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
Germaine Greer

Strength, Dark, Energy

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine Greer

Woman, Her, Off

Act quickly, think slowly.
Germaine Greer

Act, Quickly, Slowly

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer

Pleasure, Essence

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

Life, Nothing, Everything

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

Love, Men, Person

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

Jealousy, Woman, Jealous

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

Women, Fight, Behind

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer

Place, Security, Except

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

Important, Management, Fertility

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

Yourself, Another, Rule

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

Alone, Against, Brother

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

May, Night, Path

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Germaine Greer

Women, Men, Reality

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer

Revolution, Oppressed, Festival

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Germaine Greer

Enough, Quite, Tragedy

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
Germaine Greer

Result, Creating, Feminine

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Nationality: Australian

Born: January 29, 1939

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