Germaine Greer Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

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

  Germaine Greer

  Hate, Women, Memorable

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

• The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Skills, Wife

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

• There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

  Germaine Greer

  Change, Memorable, Has Beens

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

• Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happiness, Denial

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

• The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Wife, House

• Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

  Germaine Greer

  World, Slavery, Abandonment

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

• Security is the denial of life

  Germaine Greer

  Denial, Security

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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