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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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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
Painter
Photographer
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Sculptor
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.
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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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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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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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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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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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Monogamy and prostitution go together.
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.
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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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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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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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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.
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