Germaine Greer Quotes

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• It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

  Germaine Greer

  Design, Independence, Rewards

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Shoes, Height

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• Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Germaine Greer

  Peace, Diversity, Culture

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

  Germaine Greer

  Beautiful, Self Esteem, Achievement

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• 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

  Dark, Lakes, Light

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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• Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Pride, Reality

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• Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Live Life, Apology

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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

  Germaine Greer

  Insightful, Brain, Humans

  The Times 1 Feb. 1986

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

  Germaine Greer

  Hate, Men, Ideas

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

  Germaine Greer

  Energy, Lost, Faculty

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happiness, Denial

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Essence, Spontaneity, Pleasure

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

  Germaine Greer

  Inalienable Rights, Humans, Human Beings

  The Times 1 Feb. 1986

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• Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.

  Germaine Greer

  Pussy, Fool, Tactics

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Skills, Wife

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

  Germaine Greer

  Feminism, States, Liberation

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

  Germaine Greer

  Reading, Sleep, Vices

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

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Tragedy, Never Quit

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Order, Land

  "The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause". Book by Germaine Greer, 1991.

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

  Germaine Greer

  Adoption, Roles, Lost

  1970 The Female Eunuch,'Soul: Womanpower'.

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• 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

  Love, Running, High Heels

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• Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Hair

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