Germaine Greer Quotes on Man (14 Quotes)

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.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

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.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

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

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.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Man made one grave mistake in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all it is time for the demolition to begin.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

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

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you'' is already destroyed.