Top 51 Quotes by Germaine Greer

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

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.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

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.

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