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Kate Millett Inspirational Quotes (47)

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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.
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To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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Monogamy and prostitution go together.
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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.
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In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
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How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.
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Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
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