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I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

Brother

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

Germaine Greer

Evolution

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Germaine Greer

Confession

Psychoanalysis

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Germaine Greer

Right

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.

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

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Germaine Greer

Act