Germaine Greer

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

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.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

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

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

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

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.