Kate Millett Quotes

• 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.

  Kate Millett

• My sister said, You’re making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

  Kate Millett

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  Kate Millett

• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

  Kate Millett

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

  Kate Millett

• 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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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.

  Kate Millett

• Isn’t privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

  Kate Millett

• 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.

  Kate Millett

• I’m slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

  Kate Millett

• I was supposed to be women’s lib, and now I’d exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

  Kate Millett

• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  Kate Millett

• However muted its present appearance may be, s*xual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

  Kate Millett

• 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.

  Kate Millett

• Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

  Kate Millett

• As women, we’re probably more protective of children. Also, we’ve been minors all of our history.

  Kate Millett

• Aren’t women prudes if they don’t and prostitutes if they do?

  Kate Millett

• A s*xual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

  Kate Millett

Kate Millett (37)

Birth:	14th September, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Writer

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