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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

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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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