Germaine Greer

"It is to the feminine that we must look for the creative vision of the future."

"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves."

"Most women still need a room of their own and the best flirtation with one another is still shop talk."

"The essence of pleasure is the absence of restraint."

"What has happened to women in the twentieth century is not a revolution but a rip-off."

"I'm not being vulgar. I'm just being honest about the way things are."

"The object of male chauvinism is not to safeguard male superiority but to prevent female equality."

"Every woman knows that her life has been shaped and regulated by sexual politics."

"You've got to believe that a situation is worth saving."

"Love is a drug which is forbidden to her and so she seeks it constantly."

"In a perverse way, I was glad for the hatred. At least it meant I mattered."

"The most powerful of all words is no, because it stops the conversation."

"A woman must be a charming, womanly female, but also a competent, ambitious man."

"Sex is only a small part of love, but it's the only honest part."

"We women are cowards before we're criminals."

"The beggar is the only free man in the city."

"To love without role, without power plays, is passé."

"They have decided that I am mad and so anything I do is interpreted in that light."

"The only real love is love at first sight; anything else is just an edit."

"A succession of smaller and smaller circles of human relationships, something akin to being caged."

"The greatest liar in the world is They Say."

"In love, there are two things: bodies and words."

"One can't live only on hope, one must eat something."

"Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."

"The law cannot make an opportunity. The law can only secure the right to opportunity."

"All that happens is that women go through life imagining that they are too much."

"I'm only interested in what I don't know, and that's everything."

"If you want to understand a person, you have to understand their history."

"The fact is that feminist ideology, even in its best and most developed form, is not rational."