Germaine Greer

"The world needs the wisdom that comes from women's experience."

"A woman's greatest power lies in her refusal to be diminished."

"The subjugation of women benefits only those who profit from their labor."

"Women are not born to serve; they are born to lead."

"The liberation of women is inevitable and unstoppable."

"The female eunuch is the woman who has internalized the values of her oppressor."

"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."

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

"The more I behave like myself, the less people like me."

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most of us are strategists."

"Motherhood is the one thing women were invented for, according to most male writers."

"I regret nothing I have ever done which has given me pleasure."

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

"One of the reasons I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."

"Every time a woman makes herself laugh at a man's stupid joke so that he will think she has a good sense of humor, she betrays the facial muscles into a pattern of fatalistic misuse."

"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother."

"You're supposed to be an object of beauty, but you're also supposed to be dead inside."

"A man cannot be made to love you by force, nor indeed by any stratagem."

"The common belief is that if you refuse to name something, it will go away."

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host."

"Every woman knows the experience of being verbally abused by men."

"Families are the death of love."

"In the normal course of events, I would be expected to write something cheerful, uplifting, and optimistic."

"The only love worthy of a name is the love of a man who sees you as an equal."

"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human."

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

"The torture of a bad marriage is that you know too much."

"Semen is awfully funny stuff, isn't it? I mean, to have to produce it and to have to spend the rest of one's life secreting it somewhere."

"If a woman sits by a man's bedside all night long, absolutely pining for him, he calls her devoted. If he's in the mood to call her that."

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