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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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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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Women
Exceeded
Supposed
International
Politics

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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
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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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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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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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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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