Germaine Greer

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

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

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

Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.