Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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
Germaine Greer

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

Act quickly, think slowly.

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

Germaine Greer
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
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
Germaine Greer

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

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

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
Germaine Greer

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.