Germaine Greer Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Germaine Greer:

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Germaine Greer

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

Germaine Greer

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Germaine Greer

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

Germaine Greer

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

Germaine Greer

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

Germaine Greer

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Germaine Greer

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Germaine Greer

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Germaine Greer

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Germaine Greer

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

Germaine Greer

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Germaine Greer

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Germaine Greer

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Germaine Greer

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Germaine Greer

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Germaine Greer

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Germaine Greer

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Germaine Greer

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

Germaine Greer

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer

Act quickly, think slowly.

Germaine Greer

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Germaine Greer

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Germaine Greer

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Germaine Greer

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

Germaine Greer

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

Germaine Greer

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer