A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. - Germaine Greer
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. - Germaine Greer
Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches television. - Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. - Germaine Greer
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. - Germaine Greer
Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter. - Germaine Greer
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. - Germaine Greer
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever - Germaine Greer
The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others. - Germaine Greer
Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence. - Germaine Greer