Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. - Germaine Greer
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
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. - Germaine Greer
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Security is the denial of life - Germaine Greer
Security is the denial of life
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
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.
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. - Germaine Greer
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
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
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…
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
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…
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
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light no…
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