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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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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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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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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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The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
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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 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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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
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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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