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Kate Millett Inspirational Quotes (47)

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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.
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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.
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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.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
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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.
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
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The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.
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During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
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Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
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To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
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