Kate Millett Short Quotes

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No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

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If only no one had told them I was mad. Then I wouldn't be.

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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

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There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

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

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One of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

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Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

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

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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

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

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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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To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often but a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in the sand.

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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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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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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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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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Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.

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Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

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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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Ah, but depression — that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

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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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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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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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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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