The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.
Germaine GreerWe live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
Germaine GreerEvery time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
Germaine GreerIs it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
Germaine GreerWhat we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
Germaine GreerThe wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrรฉe of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.
Germaine Greer