Greer Quotes

#1. The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

Peter Mullan

#2. I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

Jane Campion

#3. And, as I get to the airport, I realize that I'm a runner. Life gets hot and I pack my things and leave. It's new, but so is being an adult. I'm learning about myself. But, hey! I did what I came to do. So I'm an accomplished runner. Greer

Tarryn Fisher

#4. Robert, that's a little too far off the wall, I think, Greer analyzed.

Tom Clancy

#5. Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#6. I know what will make you smile. Look at this.' Loveday watched in the mirror's reflection as Greer opened a satin drawstring bag and took out a delicate garter made of gauze and swan's-down

Fern Britton

#7. Natalie Greer is as spoiled as a pan of milk set out in the sun.

Beverly Jenkins

#8. Martin Greer Galton had ceased troubling his fellow man in 1964, when a cerebral aneurysm achieved what most of his acquaintances and business associates would have dearly loved to have had a hand in.

Lawrence Block

#9. My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

Jamie Dornan

#10. I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

Mark Zupan

#11. Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

Meg Cabot

#12. As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal.

Caitlin Moran

#13. Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

Germaine Greer

#14. The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others.

Germaine Greer

#15. Deny a young boy the right to have a toy gun and you will suppress his destructive urges, and he will turn out to be a homosexual - or worse!

Germaine Greer

#16. Do you taste that?" I ask, pressing the pads of my fingertips onto her tongue. "That's the taste of the pussy I'm about to fuck.

Sierra Simone

#17. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer

#18. Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

Germaine Greer

#19. One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Germaine Greer

#20. Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

Germaine Greer

#21. Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

Breaux Greer

#22. Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

Germaine Greer

#23. The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Germaine Greer

#24. In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

Judy Greer

#25. Cunt-lapping, mother-fucking, and cock-sucking are words to provoke a sense of outrage. Being forced to play the role of a woman in sexual intercourse is the deepest imaginable humiliation, which is only worsened if the victim finds to his horror that he enjoys it.

Germaine Greer

#26. Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure of the object can be discerned.

Steven M. Greer

#27. Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

Judy Greer

#28. Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

Germaine Greer

#29. Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

Germaine Greer

#30. For dinner I had 20 ounces of coffee and 5 Kraft singles. Am I going to die?

Judy Greer

#31. Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.

Jane Greer

#32. The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person.

Andrew Sean Greer

#33. I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Judy Greer

#34. Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Germaine Greer

#35. Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

Germaine Greer

#36. If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to the extent of implying a glandular abnormality or sexual perversion.

Germaine Greer

#37. I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

Breaux Greer

#38. I believe in permanent revolution.

Germaine Greer

#39. Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school for work, I always feel so huge. Everything seems so little. The lockers seem smaller than I remember and the length of the hallways seem shorter when you're a kid.

Judy Greer

#40. When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.

Judy Greer

#41. I have a randezvous with life.

Andrew Sean Greer

#42. I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'

Jane Greer

#43. 'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

Judy Greer

#44. I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

Germaine Greer

#45. Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

Breaux Greer

#46. Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Germaine Greer

#47. And finally: Who are we when we're not ourselves?

Andrew Sean Greer

#48. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

Germaine Greer

#49. Did she watch Newsies? Tell me she watched Newsies.
Twice.

Chloe Neill

#50. I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.

Judy Greer

#51. Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

Andrew Sean Greer

#52. Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Germaine Greer

#53. Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

Germaine Greer

#54. The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.

Judy Greer

#55. Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

Andrew Sean Greer

#56. There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been evaluated and deemed authentic by competent experts in optical physics and related fields.

Steven M. Greer

#57. I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life
toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things
and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.

Greer Garson

#58. I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

Judy Greer

#59. When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Greer Garson

#60. Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.

John Michael Greer

#61. At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

Judy Greer

#62. Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to apologize and disguise herself, while accepting her male's pot-belly, wattles, bad breath, farting, stubble, baldness and other ugliness without complaint.

Germaine Greer

#63. Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.

Germaine Greer

#64. There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

Germaine Greer

#65. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Germaine Greer

#66. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

David J. Greer

#67. The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Germaine Greer

#68. Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if you ask me, the sheer quantity of normal in the world today. I think that's the real horror of modern life.

James Greer

#69. We are each the love of someone's life.

Andrew Sean Greer

#70. Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Germaine Greer

#71. It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.

Germaine Greer

#72. I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.

Judy Greer

#73. It's been by turns frustrating and fascinating and wonderful beyond imagination. If what I suspect is true, it's one of the most important milestones in human history to acknowledge that we are not alone in the universe.

Steven M. Greer

#74. Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn their passion ultimately to duty.

Germaine Greer

#75. When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be as effective now.

Germaine Greer

#76. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what

Andrew Sean Greer

#77. Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

Andrew Sean Greer

#78. As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Germaine Greer

#79. There are more than 4000 landing trace cases from around the world.

Steven M. Greer

#80. Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.

Germaine Greer

#81. Just one small thing had changed, such a small thing really. What difference could it make, the era in which we are born?

Andrew Sean Greer

#82. There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

Bonnie Greer

#83. Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Germaine Greer

#84. How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?

Andrew Sean Greer

#85. No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

Andrew Sean Greer

#86. Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.

Germaine Greer

#87. Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

#88. I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outsrtipped or belittled.

Germaine Greer

#89. If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

Judy Greer

#90. small changes around the margins,

Carl Greer

#91. I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.

Judy Greer

#92. Well, that episode was the last straw, as my mom explains it, and the Nun Boss basically fired my mom, but even though she was a failed nun and never got to marry God, she went home feeling as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

Judy Greer

#93. How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

Andrew Sean Greer

#94. Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

Breaux Greer

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

Germaine Greer

#96. Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

Germaine Greer

#97. Life is always better than death. Always. No exceptions.

Greer Macallister

#98. I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

Judy Greer

#99. All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.

Greer Garson

#100. The future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

John Michael Greer