Quote

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

Kate Millett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Time
People
Patient
Artist
Littles
Little
Firsts
First
Always

More quotes by Kate Millett

Image
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.
Kate Millett
Image
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
Kate Millett
Image
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett
Image
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?
Kate Millett
Image
I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
Kate Millett
Image
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
Kate Millett
Image
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.
Kate Millett
Image
Monogamy and prostitution go together.
Kate Millett
Image
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Kate Millett
Image
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
Kate Millett
Image
The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.
Kate Millett
Image
Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
Kate Millett