Germaine Greer Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

• Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Order, Land

  "The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause". Book by Germaine Greer, 1991.

• The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.

  Germaine Greer

  Strong, Communication, Community

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

• The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Eye

• We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

  Germaine Greer

  Communication, Community, Age

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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