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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
Taboos
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
Kate Millett
Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Kate Millett
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
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
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
Kate Millett
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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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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You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
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
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.
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Monogamy and prostitution go together.
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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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People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
Kate Millett
Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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
