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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
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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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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