"I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover." ― Germaine Greer Topic(s): Women More From Germaine Greer "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." "Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It’s the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws." "Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark." More In Women "Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it."― E. W. Howe "No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility."― Simone de Beauvoir "You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can’t say I do like it very much."― Doris Lessing