Kate Millett Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.”

“Psychiatry causes so much death.”

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

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

“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.”

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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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

“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.”

“As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.”

“Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?”

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