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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.

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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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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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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The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
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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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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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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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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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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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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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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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