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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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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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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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In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
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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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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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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
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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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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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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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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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one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.
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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.
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You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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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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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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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 are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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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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