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Kate Millett Quotes


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.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

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.

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.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

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.

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.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.