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Kate Millett [1934-0] American

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Activist, Feminist writer

Katherine Murray "Kate" Millett is an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors by St. Hilda's.

Politics, Romantic

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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.		101
My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.		102
I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.		103
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.		104
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.		105
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.		106
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.		107
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.		108
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.	Romantic	109
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.		110
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.		111
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?		112
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.		113
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.	Politics	114
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.		115
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.		116
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.		117
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.		118
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.		119
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.		120
It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.		121
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.		122
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?		123
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.		124
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.		125
Psychiatry causes so much death.		126
They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.		201
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.		202
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.		203
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.		204
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.		205
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.		206
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?		207
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.		208

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