Germaine Greer

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature. ”

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. ”

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. ”

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. ”

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. ”