Germaine Greer

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.