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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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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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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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.
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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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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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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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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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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
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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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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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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?
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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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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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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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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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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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Monogamy and prostitution go together.
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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