The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job. Germaine Greer More Quotes by Germaine Greer More Quotes From Germaine Greer The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right. Germaine Greer insult abortion privilege Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. Germaine Greer soccer culture art 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-you war children 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 abandonment slavery world English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. Germaine Greer adults lessons children 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 dad mom children 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 women struggle order 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-heart kissing love 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 sadness creative spring Security is the denial of life Germaine Greer denial security 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 buttocks women female 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 likeable mistress self 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 alternatives parent choices If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible. Germaine Greer collapse economics structure 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 survival principles integrity 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 vices reading sleep 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 men mean reality Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage. Germaine Greer hotel invited has-beens The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. Germaine Greer sensibility jaded treatment A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. Germaine Greer necks bosoms
