The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
Germaine GreerSoccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
Germaine GreerMan made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.
Germaine GreerWomanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
Germaine GreerYet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine GreerThe housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.
Germaine Greer