Germaine Greer Quotes

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

Women, Men, Hate

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

Home, Rest, Worst

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

Mother, Father, Freud

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

Human, Themselves, Invent

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

Love, Women, Men

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Germaine Greer

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
Germaine Greer

Women, Strange, Free

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
Germaine Greer

Great, Enemy, Help

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
Germaine Greer

Marriage, Family, Woman

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

War, Children, Him

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

Control, Lose, Won

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

Good, Human, Trying

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Germaine Greer

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
Germaine Greer

Around, Hotel, Hang

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer

Love, Mother, Her

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
Germaine Greer

Love, Same, Whole

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
Germaine Greer

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Germaine Greer

Women, Men, Together

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer

Women, Struggle, Revolution

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Germaine Greer

Children, Cannot, Concerned

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
Germaine Greer

Women, Men, Sad

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Nationality: Australian

Born: January 29, 1939

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