“Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives — to be fattened or made docile — women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigour for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed.”
“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.”
Germaine Greer
“You're only young once, but you can be immature forever”
Germaine Greer
“The term eunuchs was used by Eldridge Cleaver to describe blacks. It occurred to me that women were in a somewhat similar position. Blacks had been emancipated from slavery but never given any kind of...”
Germaine Greer
“Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.”
Germaine Greer
“No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”
Germaine Greer