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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
Photographer
Public Figure
Sculptor
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Katherine Murray Millett
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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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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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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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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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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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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.
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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
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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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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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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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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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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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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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