Kate Millett Quotes

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• The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further…
• 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…
• [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic…
• To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.
• I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
• Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
• 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…
• Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so…
• You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
• I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility,
• What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.
• 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.
• My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
• It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place
• Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.
• I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
• 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…
• 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…
• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

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