Germaine Greer

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

"The female eunuch is the ultimate victim of the patriarchal system."

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

"The only physical power women ever had is the power to deny men access to their bodies."

"Do not breed. Nothing to breed for, no reason to exist."

"Revolution is the only form of political action that can effect fundamental change."

"Middle-class women still work, but they pretend not to."

"Every woman knows that being beautiful means conforming to a very narrow range of what men find attractive."

"The body is not an apology."

"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape."

"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful; we have been trained to be so."

"The greatest problem women have is that men are not yet evolved."

"Happily married women are not satisfied in the way that happily married men are."

"Female sexuality has been more or less literally colonized."

"We are dying from politeness."

"A man's dressing is his own business, but a woman's dressing is everybody's business."

"The fight against male dominance cannot be separated from other human struggles."

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

"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."

"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is not allowed to ever be vulnerable."

"Women must be willing to become witches rather than wives."

"Education is a form of power that nobody can take away from you."

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night around midnight."

"Stubbornness is one of the strongest traits in a woman's character."

"We do not believe that if you feed the poor, they will be grateful."

"Argument should be a weapon available to everyone, not just the educated elite."

"The tragedy of human history is that women were left out of it."

"A person is not ugly because their face is out of fashion."

"We regard ourselves as citizens; the males regard themselves as citizens too."

"I have long considered it one of the chief duties of a philosopher to assist in the creation of such a consciousness."