Quotes by Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

Explore a curated collection of 56 quotes by Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be pr — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating. — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquer — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become. — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is curtailed, more if they — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinia — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationship, that the young w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or not they might have — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy t — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear h — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women. — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
In some ways the operation of the feminine stereotype is so obvious and for many women entirely unattainable, that it ca — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liber — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it i — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, becaus — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch