Quotes by Greer, Germaine

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a t >>

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role >>

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although >>

Quotations about Women

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is >>

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masc >>

We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteent >>

Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.

Greer, Germaine