キース・ダンスタンは『The Best Australian Profiles』の中で、「この本の評論は非常に雑多だ。もっとも有名なのはジ・エイジだ」と述べ、オーストラリアンの好意的なレヴューと対比させた。「この本は異様に視野が狭く、自己満足的で憤慨しているオーストラリア人には迎え入れられている。…(略)…教義的でもなく自己満足のものでもない。口やかましいものでもなければ偏執狂なものですらない」と書いている。
^Wilde, W H; Hooton, Joy; Andrews, Barry (1994) [1985]. The Oxford companion to Australian Literature (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 271. ISBN0-19-553381-X. "... the book became almost a sacred text for the international women's liberation movement of the 1970s, notwithstanding sporadic criticism of aspects of its ideology from some feminists."
^Laura Miller (1999年6月22日). “Germaine Greer”. Brilliant Careers. Salon. pp. 1 of 2. 2015年11月3日閲覧。 “They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives." Women entirely unlike Germaine Greer, the feminist who improved the world in spite of herself.”
^LeVay, Simon (1996). Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. p. 140. ISBN0-262-12199-9