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.

Quote by Germaine Greer

Topics: Catastrophe Quotes, Catastrophes Quotes

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

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

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone...

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone...

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not...

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not...

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

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

Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.

Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy...

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy...

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

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

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice...

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice...

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a...

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a...

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank...

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank...

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

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum...

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum...

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit...

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit...

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth

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

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

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the...

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the...

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it...

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it...

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto...

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto...

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.