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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.

Kate Millett

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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
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St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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