GERMAINE GREER

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

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.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

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

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

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.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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

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

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.