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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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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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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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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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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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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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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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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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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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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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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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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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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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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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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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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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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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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
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