Germaine Greer Quotes

Americans like fat books and thin women.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

Women are slaves to their beauty.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

I think women are very attractive.