The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
Germaine GreerReading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.
Germaine GreerThere have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
Germaine Greer