Quote

continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.

Germaine Greer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Interest
Managed
Perfect
Continuing
Difficult
Rare
Together
Sexual
Feel
Partners
Feels
Thirty
Years
Guilty
Adjustment
Sex
Inadequate

More quotes by Germaine Greer

Image
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine Greer
Image
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
Image
I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Germaine Greer
Image
Act quickly, think slowly.
Germaine Greer
Image
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
Germaine Greer
Image
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.
Germaine Greer
Image
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out it's one of the most charming things about them.
Germaine Greer
Image
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
Germaine Greer
Image
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer
Image
I believe in permanent revolution.
Germaine Greer
Image
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
Image
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
Germaine Greer
Image
How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?
Germaine Greer
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.
Germaine Greer
Image
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
Germaine Greer
Image
The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
Germaine Greer
Image
Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
Germaine Greer
Image
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