Daily Inspiration Quote by Germaine Greer

Greer’s line doesn’t comfort; it strips the safety rails off. “There is no such thing as security” lands like a rebuttal to the modern obsession with risk management, the idea that if we just optimize hard enough - the right job, the right partner, the right locks, the right laws - life can be made stable. Then she doubles down: “There never has been.” That second sentence is the blade. It refuses nostalgia, refuses the fantasy that earlier eras were sturdier, more orderly, more protective. The past wasn’t secure; it was just unevenly protected, with danger outsourced to the less powerful.

As an activist, Greer’s intent is political, not merely existential. “Security” is one of those words that sounds neutral but often functions as a permission slip: for surveillance, for tighter borders, for disciplining bodies, for telling women to accept smaller lives in exchange for a promise that was never real. The subtext is that the demand for security can be a way of demanding control - and control, historically, is something institutions seek over individuals.

The line also presses on a quieter, personal register: if security is a mirage, then the honest task isn’t chasing it, but building resilience and solidarity. Greer’s provocation isn’t “give up”; it’s “stop being managed by fear.” In a culture that sells safety as a product and as a moral duty, her refusal reads like an instruction: live without the lie.