Germaine Greer

"A womans pleasure is not dependent upon the presence of a penis in the vagina; neither is a mans."

"But why cant Greer acknowledge the confidence and freedom that many women now bring to their sexual lives? The liberation that Greer herself helped us to achieve she now denies."

"If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?"

"The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more."

"Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. Theyve become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their masters ulterior motives — to be fattened or made docile — women have been cut off from their capacity for action. Its a process that sacrifices vigour for delicacy and succulence, and one thats got to be changed."

"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother."