Germaine Greer
Overview
Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

 voices of the later 20th century.

Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her book The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch is a book first published in 1970 that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The author, Germaine Greer, became well known in broadcast media of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and her home of Australia...

 became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her into a household name and bringing her both adulation and opposition.
Quotations

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The Times, London (1986-02-01)

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

Newsnight Review (2009-07-24) :Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-52762-8

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

The Wicked Womb (p. 57)

Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him...

The Stereotype (p. 67)

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Womanpower (p. 128)

 
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