Kate Millett quotes

Kate Millett was an American feminist activist, writer, and artist, best known for her groundbreaking book "Sexual Politics." Her work played a pivotal role in the second-wave feminist movement and challenged conventional views on gender and power. She remains an influential figure in the fight for women's rights and gender equality. Here are 37 of her quotes:

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs. (Kate Millett)
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. View quote
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. View quote
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska. View quote
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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 mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture. View quote
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different. View quote
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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. View quote
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place? (Kate Millett)
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do? View quote
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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 means to bring into being. View quote
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin. View quote
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully. View quote
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most. View quote
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion. View quote
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. View quote
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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, but there is no physical proof. View quote
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way. View quote
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. (Kate Millett)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. View quote
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Psychiatry causes so much death. View quote
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Kate Millett

Kate Millett - Image
Photo: Linda Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Activist
Born: September 14, 1934
Died: September 6, 2017
Quotes count: 37

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