Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
Germaine GreerOnly one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
Germaine GreerThe occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
Germaine GreerEvery woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
Germaine GreerHuman beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Germaine GreerA woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.
Germaine Greer