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
necks bosoms
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.
thinking toilets bladder
No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.
art horse men
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.
economics structure collapse
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
art garden alternatives
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.
happiness people facts
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.
self evil our-society
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.
disease causes lifetime
Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.
rip hippie ambition
The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.
children exercise aberration
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
might ifs know-how
If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got?
moon tides harmony
We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.
ugly knees
My knees have always been ugly.
past littles needs
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.