Germaine Greer Mean Quotations

She became the character she was playing in an Ibsen play; she'd stalk around with grey hair. She was also the meanest woman in the world.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

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.