Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Kate Millett
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Wants
Persuade
Order
Request
Cannot
Mail
Doe
Wanting
Make
Command
Life
Grief
Coerce
Sorrow
Bureaucratic
Sex
Channels
More quotes by Kate Millett
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
Kate Millett
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Kate Millett
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.
Kate Millett
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
Kate Millett
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
Kate Millett
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.
Kate Millett
To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
Kate Millett
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.
Kate Millett
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Kate Millett
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
Kate Millett
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
Kate Millett
Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
Kate Millett
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Kate Millett
I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
Kate Millett
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
Kate Millett
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
Kate Millett
Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
Kate Millett
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
Kate Millett
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
No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
Kate Millett
