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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
Painter
Photographer
Public Figure
Sculptor
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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Jealousy
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People
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Monogamy
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