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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.
Kate Millett
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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
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St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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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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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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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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To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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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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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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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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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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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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
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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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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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Monogamy and prostitution go together.
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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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