Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. Germaine Greer More Quotes by Germaine Greer More Quotes From Germaine Greer As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. Germaine Greer measure-for-measure virtue The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation. Germaine Greer mother love father If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography. Germaine Greer real self love-is It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role Germaine Greer organization personality sex How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women? Germaine Greer answers men way Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. Germaine Greer psychoanalysis mother father Marriage cannot be a job as it has become. Germaine Greer marriage jobs Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. Germaine Greer family mother father Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane. Germaine Greer real military hero Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. Germaine Greer amour jealousy men Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. Germaine Greer hate men ideas The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology. Germaine Greer sexuality drug love In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death. Germaine Greer umbilical-cord motherhood struggle Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power. Germaine Greer real inspiring men Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea. Germaine Greer lifelong monogamy ideas Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. Germaine Greer repression invention bras 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. Germaine Greer couple real struggle Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. Germaine Greer crushed brother average I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. Germaine Greer feminism vacuums fighting Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. Germaine Greer survival loss art
