Germaine Greer Quotes

I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

I can only give my life in a way that makes me comfortable.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own.

Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.