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34 quotes by Kate Millett

Katherine Murray "Kate" Millett (born September 14, 1934) is an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors by St. Hilda's. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics," which was her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University....
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

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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... →

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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... →

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