Germaine Greer
Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is that narcissistic one, for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Next time round Hitler will be a machine.
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.
She enjoys what most women do not enjoy, and therefore it's valuable, which is going out and doing battle with men.
Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.