Quote

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.

Kate Millett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Committed
Revolution
Name
Names
Purging
Lost
Purge
Firsts
Execution
First
Cruelty
Murder

More quotes by Kate Millett

Image
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
Kate Millett
Image
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
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett
Image
Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
Kate Millett
Image
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
Kate Millett
Image
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.
Kate Millett
Image
They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
Kate Millett
Image
No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
Kate Millett
Image
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
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
Kate Millett
Image
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
Kate Millett