Germaine Greer Quotes & Sayings

“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”

“Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.”

“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”

“Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.”

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

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