Ed Greer Quotes

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

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

We are each the love of someone's life.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

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.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

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

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.

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

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

Security is the denial of life

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.