You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

- Germaine Greer

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

- Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

- Germaine Greer

Security is the denial of life

- Germaine Greer

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light no…

- Germaine Greer

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

- Germaine Greer

Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense o…

- Germaine Greer

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

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as y…

- Germaine Greer