Germaine Greer

Quotes

• “Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives — to be fattened or made docile — women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigour for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed.”
• “The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”
• “Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.”
• “No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”
• “How do we form ourselves into an activity — a force to improve the situation? I don't have the answers. I'm an academic — the most useless people in the world.”
• “Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”

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