The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Germaine GreerIt 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.
Germaine GreerI didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
Germaine GreerHuman beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Germaine Greer