Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.
Germaine GreerMan is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine GreerGuilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
Germaine GreerThe house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Germaine GreerIf the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
Germaine GreerIf women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?
Germaine Greer