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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.
Kate Millett
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Kate Millett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2017
Died: September 6
Feminist
Film Director
Painter
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Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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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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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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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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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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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 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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People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
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The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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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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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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