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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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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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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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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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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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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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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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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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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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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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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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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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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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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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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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
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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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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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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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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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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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