Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
Actor
Broadcaster
Critic
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Professor
Screenwriter
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Rose Blight
Dr. G
Clothing
Sequence
Popular
Despite
Hallucinating
Image
Exigencies
Trade
Buttocks
Female
Boobs
Women
Clothings
More quotes by 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
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Germaine Greer
If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got?
Germaine Greer
It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
Germaine Greer
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Germaine Greer
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.
Germaine Greer
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
Germaine Greer
After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
Germaine Greer
Perhaps 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
I believe in permanent revolution.
Germaine Greer
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Germaine Greer
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
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
Germaine Greer
Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
Germaine Greer
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Germaine Greer
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Germaine Greer
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Germaine Greer
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
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Germaine Greer