Germaine Greer

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

"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman has passed into and out of your life, then you have never really loved."

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

"Happily, there are enough people in the world to fill it with plenty of luminous examples of learning ability."

"The catastrophe of male chauvinist assumption is that women are people."

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

"In the seraglio of my mind my cosseted loves are still alive."

"Families are not fair, and we shouldn't expect them to be."

"Real liberation will come when women understand that they must not be liberated by man but by themselves."

"The right to financial independence is the right to life itself."

"Creativity must like love embrace the void and the formless and the half-created."

"Beautiful women are not as common as beautiful moments."

"Solitude is the reward of effort and the beginning of wisdom."

"The most powerful word in the English language is 'yet'."

"Every man adores a Ternary Goddess."

"A woman is not written in the same language as a man."

"Competition is a sin."

"The compulsory heterosexuality that the female must endure ensures her physical, economic, and emotional dependence on the male."

"Life as we know it is virtually a system of barter."

"The deepest change in human consciousness may well be the overthrow of the love sentiment."

"Art should never be a matter of technique alone; it should come from the heart."

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."

"No sex without representation."

"The feeling of being betrayed is one of the strongest feelings known to humans."

"A woman might claim to want a partner, but what she often wants is an admiring audience."

"The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization."

"I'm not a housewife nor a career woman; I'm a writer."

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

"Love, love, love. All you need is love."

"The most powerful fetish in the world is the female body."