Germaine Greer Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

  Germaine Greer

  Family, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

• Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Father, Psychoanalysis

  The Female Eunuch (1970)

• A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Clever, Husband

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