"The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no se...
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
More Germaine Greer quotes
"Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the...
"Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it was that the woman who slept in his bed would be ...
"Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world ...
"The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his...
"In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear hard. She may feel her early co...
"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. For a long time t...
"Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is curtailed, more if they are married. How can marriage...
"Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationship, that the young wife's involvement with her chi...
"English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. A sterilized parent is a eunuc...
"Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
"The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppress...
"The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love ...
"Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.
"If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to the extent of implying...