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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
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St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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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.
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
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.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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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
Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
Kate Millett
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
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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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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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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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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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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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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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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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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
It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
Kate Millett
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
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
Kate Millett
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.
Kate Millett
