Kate Millett Quotes & Sayings
34 most famous Kate Millett quotes and sayings (activist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.”
“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.”
“You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”
“It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.”
“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 women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.”
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