Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimer… - Germaine Greer

" "
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Germaine Greer

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

feminism authenticity

English

Collect this quote

About Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Rose Blight • Dr. G Terf

All quotes from Germaine Greer Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Germaine Greer:

Simone de Beauvoir Betty Friedan Camille Paglia Andrea Dworkin Gloria Steinem

Additional quotes by Germaine Greer

Thirty years on, femininity is still compulsory for women — and has become an option for men — while genuine femaleness remains grotesque to the point of obscenity. Meanwhile, the price of the small advances we have made towards sexual equality has been the denial of femaleness as any kind of a distinguishing character.

Probably the commonest form of non-criminal rape is rape by fraud - by phoney tenderness or false promises of an enduring relationship, for example.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless … - Germaine Greer

About Germaine Greer

Also Known As

Enhance Your Quote Experience

Additional quotes by Germaine Greer

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI