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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
Kate Millett
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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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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.
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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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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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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
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The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
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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.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
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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.
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