Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.
Germaine GreerBecause love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
Germaine GreerAll societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer