Germaine Greer

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bonds to one another."

"Intellectual women are restless."

"The tragedy of sexual politics is that ideology must inevitably homogenize character."

"What is a man but the collective consciousness of all that he has experienced?"

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

"The mind can be as caged or as free as it wishes to be."

"There is special hell for women who make no effort to help other women."

"Time is the only thing we cannot buy."

"The tyranny of language is that it can only express what the speaker wants to express."

"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

"Every citizen can make a difference."

"The female body is treated like public property."

"Pregnancy is barbaric."

"The word love means something different to everyone."

"Self is a thing to be overcome not indulged."

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the start, how does that account for centuries of productivity?"

"I'm a woman and my place is in the struggle."

"The whole of the world's great art is erotic."

"Death is the only absolute power we have."

"Money is the last great obscenity."

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

"The female is more intelligent; the male is more aggressive."

"Beauty is a construct."

"Every woman is a different kind of problem."

"Patriarchy is an old-boy's network."

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend only until he is not."

"Technology should serve humans, not the reverse."

"Older women know who they are and that is what makes them beautiful."