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
agony creating personality
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
women struggle order
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
inspirational wisdom night
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
hate men ideas
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
fighting feminism boards
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
brother average crushed
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
jealousy men amour
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
class evolution charming
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
men culture care
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
husband wife house
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
mean men talking
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
way shame achieve
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
women reality deviousness
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.
girl boys should-have
It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.