Face to Face with Kim Hill - Germaine Greer

Television (Excerpts) – 2003

Most women are over medicated, most men are under medicated. Maybe we’d like for them to reach some sort of equilibrium, but I think being over medicated frankly, is a great deal worse than being under medicated. A lot of our problems stem from the fact we take too much medicine.

– Germaine Greer on her view that Western women are encouraged to over medicate

It’s also a truth that a woman cannot age, she’s not allowed to and that’s crazy, because we have no option…

– Germaine Greer on impossible and sexist beauty standards for women

'The Female Eunuch’ was a lucky book, it could have been written five years before and it would have disappeared without trace, and it could have been written five years after and it would have disappeared without trace; it coincided with the moment when women looked up from the kitchen sink and thought “hang on, there has to be more to life than this, I cannot believe that this is what I’ve been born for, to eke my days out like this..

– Germaine Greer looks back at her landmark 1970 book ‘The Female Eunuch’

The book is fascinating now because it fixes, with great clarity, an era and a voice. The fact that it's dated shows how far we've come. It seems an expression of Germaine Greer's deepest self, imaginative and personal as well as passionately political. It is famously the book that "changed lives”.

– Author Charlotte Grimshaw on Germaine Greer’s landmark 1970 feminist treatise ‘The Female Eunuch’ blog post, July 2024

Aired from 2003, (Face to Face) delivered some memorable episodes, including the Pilger exchange, as well as interviews with David Lange, Winston Peters and Germaine Greer. Watching the series back, it is compelling viewing. But everyone seems to have decided that it sucked. “I was awful,” says Hill. “I mean, it’s like, you ask a question and then you have to stop for a commercial break. And I moved around a lot. Winston Peters said, ‘Stop waving your arms around like an Italian!’”

– Kim Hill on her time on TV with ‘Face to Face’, The Spinoff, 23 November 2023