Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greeris an Australian-born writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions, specializing in English literature, at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 January 1939
CountryAustralia
women hate memorable
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
spiritual pain athlete
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
heart men humanity
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
sex years perfect
continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.
strong communication community
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.
self evil our-society
It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.
couple real struggle
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.
struggle achievement joy
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.
husband women laughing
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.
funny sexy sex
No sex is better than bad sex.
sex fun men
Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.
moon tides harmony
We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.
economics structure collapse
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
marriage clever husband
A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.