Germaine Greer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

“I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.”

“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.”

“Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.”