Kate Millett

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution,…

— Kate Millett

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

— Kate Millett

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

— Kate Millett

“She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.”

— Kate Millett

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it…

— Kate Millett

“Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a…

— Kate Millett

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human…

— Kate Millett

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

— Kate Millett

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

— Kate Millett

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

— Kate Millett

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through…

— Kate Millett

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

— Kate Millett

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

— Kate Millett

A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling,…

— Kate Millett

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

— Kate Millett

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet…

— Kate Millett

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you…

— Kate Millett

In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is…

— Kate Millett

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated…

— Kate Millett

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper…

— Kate Millett

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

— Kate Millett

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We…

— Kate Millett

“Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your…

— Kate Millett

Psychiatry causes so much death

— Kate Millett

Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of…

— Kate Millett