“The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the sexual object sought by all men, and all women. She is of neither sex for she herself has no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. All she must contribute is her existence. She need achieve nothing, for she is the reward of achievement. She need never give positive evidence of her moral character because virtue is assumed from her loveliness, and her passivity.”
“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
“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 o...”
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