Germaine Greer Quotes

The staging for 'Monsters' is all about me getting free. In the beginning I'm like tied, in a dark place... until I am scared no more, and I'm taking the lead of my life, I'm being the queen of my life, I'm ruling the world! In the end I'm taking a risk, but I'm taking the leap of faith.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

I'm spreading my wings at last.

I no longer limit myself.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.

It's important to me to keep testing myself in life so that I don't get pigeonholed.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Education is freedom.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.