Germaine Greer Quotes

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

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

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

Women are the real architects of society.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

Quaker meetings were the first enclaves in American society in which women were encouraged to speak out in public

There's a growing recognition that women work in a different way to men. People like Bono and the Pope have worldwide audiences. We're mostly shouting at 100 people in a hall. But it's still important.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, then there's something wrong with American politics.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.