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Kate Millett
September 14, 1934 -
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

   

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

   

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

   

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

   

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

   

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

   

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

   

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

   

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

   

Psychiatry causes so much death.

   

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

   

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

   

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

   

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

   

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

   

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

   

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

   

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

   

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

   

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

   

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