6 Germaine Greer Quotes on Gender

Germaine Greer quotes on gender

8. Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

14. The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, 'Why are there no great women artists?' it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.

29. The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

36. The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, thought it is their dirt, it is not their job.

37. How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

46. She enjoys what most women do not enjoy, and therefore it's valuable, which is going out and doing battle with men.