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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.

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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Insanity
Everyone
Sets
Fear
Lust
Irrationally
Makes
Hidden
Aroused
Must
Illness
Craziness
Like
Madness
Identified
Afraid
Punish
Crazy
Sanity

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