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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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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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Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.
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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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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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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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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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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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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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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 lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
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The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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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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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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