Germaine Greer Quotes

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

In the 18th century, most people believed that God had ordained specific and different spheres for men and women relative to their roles in life. Some people still feel that way.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!