“Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.”
“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