Kate Millett Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”

“My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.”