Love & Passion Quote by Germaine Greer

Greer’s candor lands like a lit match in a room full of polite theories about “orientation.” She refuses the tidy confessional arc (I was X, then I discovered I was Y) and instead serves something messier: desire as appetite, intimacy as politics, and heterosexuality as an institution that can feel structurally rigged against women.

The first line is deliberately abrasive. “Interested in men for sex” strips romance of its cultural prestige and hints at a pragmatic bargain: men as bodies, not destiny. Then she pivots to the provocation that does the real work: “any sane woman” would prefer women. That’s not a literal claim so much as a pressure test. Greer frames attraction as a rational response to lived experience: if men are “such a mess,” why wouldn’t women seek each other out? It’s a feminist argument smuggled in the language of libido, challenging the idea that heterosexual coupling is “natural” rather than habitual, coerced, or simply over-rewarded by culture.

The “I have always wished...” line exposes the ache beneath the polemic. Wishing to fall in love with a woman isn’t a declaration of identity; it’s an admission that politics doesn’t rewire longing on command. That last, clipped “Damn” is key: it’s frustration at the gap between what seems emotionally and ethically sensible and what her own desire actually does. In the context of second-wave feminism, Greer is also poking at the era’s debates about political lesbianism, using humor and exasperation to show how slogans collide with the stubborn specificity of private want.