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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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Privacy
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Taboos
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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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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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.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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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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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
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To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
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For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.
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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.
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The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.
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