Greer

Famous quotes containing the word greer:

    The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of coloured hair, écru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    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 (b. 1939)