The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor...
GERMAINE GREER Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a m...
GERMAINE GREER Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yours...
GERMAINE GREER After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called fem...
GERMAINE GREER I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would b...
GERMAINE GREER Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted wo...
GERMAINE GREER Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just...
GERMAINE GREER The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
GERMAINE GREER All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no socie...
GERMAINE GREER The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated...
GERMAINE GREER All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis u...
GERMAINE GREER Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...
GERMAINE GREER What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the fema...
GERMAINE GREER We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosio...
GERMAINE GREER The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always...
GERMAINE GREER The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i...
GERMAINE GREER Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray...
GERMAINE GREER Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except f...
GERMAINE GREER Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of li...
GERMAINE GREER There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
GERMAINE GREER Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
GERMAINE GREER Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy...
GERMAINE GREER It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is...
GERMAINE GREER Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...
GERMAINE GREER Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities ...
GERMAINE GREER It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppo...
GERMAINE GREER The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution i...
GERMAINE GREER The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and th...
GERMAINE GREER Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it...
GERMAINE GREER Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of ener...
GERMAINE GREER The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
GERMAINE GREER You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
GERMAINE GREER Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices...
GERMAINE GREER The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being ...
GERMAINE GREER On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each ...
GERMAINE GREER Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorit...
GERMAINE GREER Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people&#...
GERMAINE GREER Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of li...
GERMAINE GREER Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
GERMAINE GREER The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for...
GERMAINE GREER Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western w...
GERMAINE GREER Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of...
GERMAINE GREER There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They im...
GERMAINE GREER The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
GERMAINE GREER I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
GERMAINE GREER Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace an...
GERMAINE GREER A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simp...
GERMAINE GREER Maybe I couldn
GERMAINE GREER Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
GERMAINE GREER Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the ...
GERMAINE GREER The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth
GERMAINE GREER Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment...
GERMAINE GREER Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it ma...
GERMAINE GREER Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
GERMAINE GREER Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
GERMAINE GREER If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love ...
GERMAINE GREER Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.
GERMAINE GREER Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...
GERMAINE GREER Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is cal...
GERMAINE GREER After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever b...
GERMAINE GREER . Probably the biggest omission though is the Beatles tour 1964! Undoubtedly there are many more....
GERMAINE GREER Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution
GERMAINE GREER The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
GERMAINE GREER I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover...
GERMAINE GREER Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combi...
GERMAINE GREER It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.
GERMAINE GREER It's also an oxymoron because what we see is not real,
GERMAINE GREER It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppo...
GERMAINE GREER Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not bea...
GERMAINE GREER In our society, the pre-adolescent girl, the nubile virgin, the sexually active woman, the mother an...
GERMAINE GREER There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and...
GERMAINE GREER Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offe...
GERMAINE GREER I think these things are so political you can't trust them at all. It's madness that I am on the lis...
GERMAINE GREER It was as if we were playing Manhunt, ... It was a kind of lethal darts match.
GERMAINE GREER Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
GERMAINE GREER A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
GERMAINE GREER You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
GERMAINE GREER If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love ...
GERMAINE GREER I think that testosterone is a rare poison
GERMAINE GREER Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, thou...
GERMAINE GREER There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They im...
GERMAINE GREER Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, conceal...
GERMAINE GREER Revolution is the festival of the oppressed
GERMAINE GREER The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it ...
GERMAINE GREER Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming thing...
GERMAINE GREER Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she neve...
GERMAINE GREER Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...
GERMAINE GREER It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's proposit...
GERMAINE GREER Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strain...
GERMAINE GREER Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they ha...
GERMAINE GREER Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
GERMAINE GREER It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. No...
GERMAINE GREER Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is ...
GERMAINE GREER I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman wou...
GERMAINE GREER Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious...
GERMAINE GREER I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
GERMAINE GREER The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
GERMAINE GREER Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; foll...
GERMAINE GREER If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - ...
GERMAINE GREER Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...
GERMAINE GREER The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, o...
GERMAINE GREER We would have not moved to a house if Jeanne (Klein) hadn't said it was OK. When I talked to her she...
GERMAINE CHAPPELLE Gymnastics has always been my first love.
MAGGIE GERMAINE It was supposed to be a nice, easy way to make some money. Couple extra bucks. What do I do?
BUD GERMAINE There's legitimate businesses out there, so you've got to figure out what's legitimate and what's no...
BUD GERMAINE It was just an absolutely exciting experience.
MAGGIE GERMAINE It really is different. You have to figure out how each athlete works in order to get the most out o...
MAGGIE GERMAINE My finger felt really good. I took snaps for the first time and that was one of the things I was won...
JOE GERMAINE To win a game like that on a play like that, there's no better feeling. It was a perfect play.
JOE GERMAINE I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do this year. We've been working hard and hopefully that w...
JOE GERMAINE It was an unbelievable moment. The Rose Bowl is the greatest bowl game there is. It was the greatest...
JOE GERMAINE When Jake scored, it sure took a lot of the wind out of our sails, but we just sort of took a busine...
JOE GERMAINE Excitement. Sadness. I've been there. They're taking it in, not wanting their college careers to end...
JOE GERMAINE I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton K...
JUDY GREER I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a te...
JUDY GREER It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you h...
JUDY GREER I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertain...
JUDY GREER Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for do...
GREER GARSON The AAP recommends children eat three servings of milk, flavored milk, cheese or yogurt a day. While...
FRANK GREER My chief responsibilities have been described as soliciting and procuring. The illegal variety would...
REBECCA GREER Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career...
JANE GREER Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.
JUDY GREER Cameron knows what he wants and that was good for me.
JUDY GREER They are much more the skills of a successful politician than a nominee. Remember Ginsburg, Souter, ...
FRANK GREER I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic tim...
JUDY GREER I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
GREER GARSON But whatever happens, I've been happy. I've been loved. I've amazed crowds and drunk in their applau...
GREER MACALLISTER You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You're the only one wit...
GREER MACALLISTER It would be best for one to admit to this wrongdoing. To give some semblance of closure to the famil...
DAVID GREER It's unclear on which ship (Hickok) died. There were seamen who were killed on shore, in attacks, or...
LARRY GREER Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have e...
JUDY GREER I am very reluctantly healthy.
JUDY GREER 'Reluctantly Healthy' is so completely different than what I do for a living. It's reall...
JUDY GREER I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', t...
JUDY GREER She always was one of my biggest rivals. Whenever I pitched against her, my goal was not to let her ...
LINDSEY GREER Scientists and shamans alike know that all of life is woven into a web of infinite connections, cont...
CARL GREER You can buy a cab and a driver for everybody that would use (light rail) and it would be cheaper. Th...
GEORGE GREER I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.
BREAUX GREER It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3...
JUDY GREER I have no doubt that he will be able to perform physically at a very high level. At this time, I hav...
DAVID GREER Take care and come back.
DAVID GREER I appreciate the cooperation you've shown to pull together as a transportation unit. We'll support t...
DAVID GREER We're running out of stuff, we're selling nonperishables - there's no milk. Our vendors are having t...
DAVID GREER We're not sure what role the weblog will play in the future. But I don't think newspapers can afford...
DAVID GREER Our main concern is power. We may not have it until tomorrow.
DAVID GREER I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find mys...
JUDY GREER This isn't New York. You don't have to pay $1,500 a month to park a car.
GEORGE GREER Viewing all the evidence as a whole and acknowledging that medicine is not a precise science, the co...
GEORGE GREER All of the credible medical evidence this court has received over the last five years is that this i...
GEORGE GREER I want to live.
GEORGE GREER It was a close game. We lost a lot of shooting from last year's team, but we gained some size and I ...
GREER WRIGHT Shooting guard is my original position. I love to play on the outside, love to pass the ball, love t...
GREER WRIGHT She's always telling me how good she was. Sometimes I don't know how much to believe, but I guess I ...
GREER WRIGHT I'm really worried about my kids and the future. I want to be there to take care of them.
FRANK GREER Mount Dora is a small school, but they have nine good ballplayers. They played us very tough. I give...
GARY GREER We got some timely hitting there at the end. We've got some good hitters, eight girls hitting over ....
GARY GREER (Hite) did a good job being effectively wild for the first three innings. Then she started being wil...
GARY GREER I am not willing to spend a quarter of a million dollars on money that should be spent in the classr...
EVELYN GREER It baffles me, just baffles me, to have disruptions at the class level.
EVELYN GREER We're 47th now. We want to get to 25th.
EVELYN GREER We're 47th now; we want to get to 25th.
EVELYN GREER Is this what we want to be responsible for when we open these schools?
EVELYN GREER If we can hold on long enough, we can get revitalized, ... New Bedford is becoming a Boston bedroom ...
JANE GREER The neighbors watch for it every year. We also give tours of the church.
JANE GREER We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but ...
JAMES GREER We don't go for records. That's one thing about our girls, they are so unselfish.
JAMES GREER One thing we know is that once she gets out, she's gonna run. Both of our guards look for that. They...
JAMES GREER We stress El Camino tradition all the time. It's our job to hold court at home like so many of the p...
JAMES GREER I thought our pressure should have been better, but it got us in trouble with free throws. Boone was...
JAMES GREER We talked at halftime about just not fouling them. We definitely did a much better job on offense in...
JAMES GREER Ashley really showed up. This was her best game ever, by far. Let's say she finished well. She's sta...
JAMES GREER Amanda has been doing excellently. Sometimes, she's a little too unselfish, but she's been stepping ...
JAMES GREER Our girls came out and wanted to go back on the winning trail. The other day we were a little flat. ...
JAMES GREER The sisters and others, I have their names. But I have a Kristin and a Kirsten, those two names righ...
JAMES GREER I think he's very set on his work ethic. And I think he's getting what he deserves. He's put the tim...
MARCUS GREER I think once we got up, we got kind of flat. That's one thing we've gotta correct.
MARCUS GREER Ben Lilly threw excellent for us. Our defense backed us up and we hit the ball when we needed to.
MARCUS GREER There's a lot of technology on the battlefield to better track the position of our troops.
LARRY GREER clearly died at the site.
LARRY GREER Our teams over there interviewed North Vietnamese or communist soldiers that actually participated i...
LARRY GREER Looking at the amount of work accomplished during the first weeks of October, there was a substantia...
LARRY GREER We're trying to handle the case load the best we can.
LARRY GREER The jury is still out,
LARRY GREER Everything was visible, and that's not usually the way they occur.
LARRY GREER That word 'identified' is my word, ... because it's the only word I know of that will convey the fac...
LARRY GREER Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if yo...
JAMES GREER I ran out the back door and I said I need help, please help me. Then one (officer) went in the back,...
JUDY GREER He said please open up the register now, I don't want to hurt you. I was more worried about my custo...
JUDY GREER We went on this journey, ... and whether we were supposed to laugh, be happy, have a sad moment, it ...
JUDY GREER It was amazing to me, for someone in high school to be so excited about being in the Marines, with p...
JOE GREER He doesn't give up. If he sees he's losing, he's going to run as fast as he can.
JOE GREER In the seminar, there's just additional support and time to practice reading skills for students who...
REBA GREER [Defense contractor Lockheed Martin recently matched the new IRS rate.] Internally, we do our best t...
TOM GREER It needs to be changed. We can't afford it.
TOM GREER It's kind of a vindictive deal, ... Basically, it got down to politics.
TOM GREER Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
GERMAINE DE STAEL We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
GERMAINE DE STAEL When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of imm...
GERMAINE DE STAEL