Germaine Greer Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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

• 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

  Divorce, Law, Parent

• Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

  Germaine Greer

  Choices, Parent, Alternatives

  "Sex and Destiny". Book by Germaine Greer, 1984.

• So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  "Sex and Destiny". Book by Germaine Greer, 1984.

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