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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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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Adulthood
Blessings
Blessing
Longer
Thing
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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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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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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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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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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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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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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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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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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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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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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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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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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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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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