Germaine Greer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.”

“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”

“Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.”

“Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.”

“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”

“Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.”

“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.”

“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.”

“Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.”

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