Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greeris an Australian-born writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions, specializing in English literature, at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 January 1939
CountryAustralia
mean reality men
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.
children adults lessons
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
work play favors
Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.
women home may
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
believe long personality
It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.
home library world
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
integrity survival paper
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.
sex sorry stress
Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.
revolution needs disappear
The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
virtue measure-for-measure
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
love hatred cases
Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
treatment sensibility jaded
The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
art men handsome
At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.
marriage jobs
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.