Top 51 Quotes by Germaine Greer

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

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

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.