Germaine Greer Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

• 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.

  Germaine Greer

  Death, Women, Independent

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

• Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

  Germaine Greer

  Integrity, Survival, Principles

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.15, Atlantic Monthly Press

• Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Loss, Survival

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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