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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
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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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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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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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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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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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 don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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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.
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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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