Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and feminist, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
More quotations from Germaine Greer Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I do think that women could make politics irrelevant by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action, the likes of which we have never seen — just so far from people's ideas of state structure and viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy. And what it is is very subtle forms of interrelation which do not follow some hierarchical pattern that is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy, but fraternity. And I think it's women who are going to have to break the spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: love life earth womanhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action, the likes of which we have never seen — just so far from people's ideas of state structure and viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy. And what it is is very subtle forms of interrelation which do not follow some hierarchical pattern that is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy, but fraternity. And I think it's women who are going to have to break the spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: love life earth womanhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “dreams” You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not? —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. —Friedrich von Schiller More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The wisest men follow their own direction. —Euripides More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not? —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. —Friedrich von Schiller More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The wisest men follow their own direction. —Euripides More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Tags: dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email