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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.
Kate Millett
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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
Painter
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St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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