Kate Millett Quotes

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• The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

  Kate Millett

  Men, Needs, Suits

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• The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

  Kate Millett

  Goal, Feminism, Nuclear Families

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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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  Discrimination, Proof, Conditioning

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.55, Columbia University Press

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• When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.

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  Civilization, Two, Long

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

  Kate Millett

  People, Culture, Aliens

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.507, University of Illinois Press

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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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  Revolution, Oppression, Victim

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• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

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  Depression, Voice, Anecdotes

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

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  Powerful, Successful, Weapons

  Sexual Politics ch. 2 (1970)

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• Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

  Kate Millett

  Bisexual, World, Homosexuality

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.97, University of Illinois Press

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

  Kate Millett

  Women, Prudes, Ifs

  "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.

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• To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

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  Appreciation, Love Is, Return

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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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 its most fundamental concept of power

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  Power, Culture, Fundamentals

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.25, Columbia University Press

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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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  Life, Two, Males

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.31, Columbia University Press

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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 exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

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  Women, Exercise, Animal

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.119, Columbia University Press

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• The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Independent, Men

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• The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

  Kate Millett

  Women, Reality, Political

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.362, Columbia University Press

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• You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

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  Artist, People, Littles

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• Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

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  Mind, Madness, Wonderful

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• In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.

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  Sex, Grief, Order

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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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 which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

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  Happiness, True Love, Mean

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.37, Columbia University Press

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• Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.

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  Sex, Mastery, Surrender

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

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  Should, Immoral

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.69, University of Illinois Press

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• How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

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  Crazy, Insanity, Lust

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.68, University of Illinois Press

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• Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

  Kate Millett

  Depressing, Kindness, Males

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• People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

  Kate Millett

  Respect, People, Way

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