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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
Kate Millett
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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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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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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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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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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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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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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
Kate Millett
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.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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Monogamy and prostitution go together.
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People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
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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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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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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.
Kate Millett
