Quotes by Greer, Germaine

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanit >>

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will aboli >>

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always >>

Quotations about Family

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough >>

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the r >>

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. >>

The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

Greer, Germaine