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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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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... →

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Psychiatry causes so much death.

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

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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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived... →

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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... →

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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

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