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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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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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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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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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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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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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You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
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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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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
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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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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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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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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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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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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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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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
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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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