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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
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St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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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.
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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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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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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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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
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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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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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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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To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
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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.
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
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