Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

Born: 29 January 1939. Australian author, academic, and feminist activist

• "Libraries are resevoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed."