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

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer

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

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

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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