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.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.