It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along. Germaine Greer More Quotes by Germaine Greer More Quotes From Germaine Greer Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them. Germaine Greer efficiency body weight I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring. Germaine Greer sin art thinking After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Germaine Greer women female remember Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother Germaine Greer exorcism gender mother The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Germaine Greer women eye love A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. Germaine Greer alternatives garden art Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it. Germaine Greer feminism liberation states If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby. Germaine Greer baby blood thinking In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. Germaine Greer library home world Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity. Germaine Greer generosity women addiction Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. Germaine Greer absolution psychoanalysis confession Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin. Germaine Greer agitation women mistake If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. Germaine Greer adoption roles lost 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 Germaine Greer disgusted men facts Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. Germaine Greer insightful humans brain There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic. Germaine Greer coffee home men The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. Germaine Greer wife husband house We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own. Germaine Greer harmony tides moon Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite. Germaine Greer humor funny sex The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle. Germaine Greer rip ambition hippie
