There is no such thing as security. There never has been. Germaine Greer More Quotes by Germaine Greer More Quotes From Germaine Greer Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time. Germaine Greer frightened cooking Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. Germaine Greer divorce parent law There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all. Germaine Greer littles past needs War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. Germaine Greer defeat faces war We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. Germaine Greer communication community age The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet. Germaine Greer goal two children The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. Germaine Greer brotherhood-of-man love men It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance. Germaine Greer our-society self evil 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. Germaine Greer benefits authority pot Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to. Germaine Greer love-life passion people The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. Germaine Greer bunnies muscles hazards 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. Germaine Greer educational responsibility practice It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation. Germaine Greer support intellectual ideas The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Germaine Greer disappear revolution needs Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them. Germaine Greer triangles guilt two Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity. Germaine Greer luxury house men No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders. Germaine Greer bladder toilets thinking I believe in permanent revolution. Germaine Greer revolution permanent believe Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not. Germaine Greer occupation real children A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory. Germaine Greer marriage husband clever
