Best Quotes by Germaine Greer (Top 10)

  1. A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
  2. You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
  3. Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
  4. 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.
  5. Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
  6. I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people's ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy "” when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it's women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.
  7. Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
  8. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
  9. The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.
  10. Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

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