In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. Germaine Greer More Quotes by Germaine Greer More Quotes From Germaine Greer Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. Germaine Greer soccercultureart 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 Germaine Greer love-youwarchildren Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them. Germaine Greer abandonmentslaveryworld English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. Germaine Greer adultslessonschildren I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed. Germaine Greer dadmomchildren Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? Germaine Greer womenstruggleorder Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. Germaine Greer broken-heartkissinglove Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. Germaine Greer sadnesscreativespring Security is the denial of life Germaine Greer denialsecurity The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. Germaine Greer buttockswomenfemale Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter. Germaine Greer likeablemistressself Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives. Germaine Greer alternativesparentchoices If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible. Germaine Greer collapseeconomicsstructure Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway. Germaine Greer survivalprinciplesintegrity Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading. Germaine Greer vicesreadingsleep 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. Germaine Greer menmeanreality Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage. Germaine Greer hotelinvitedhas-beens The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. Germaine Greer sensibilityjadedtreatment A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. Germaine Greer necksbosoms The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. Germaine Greer mothersongchildren
