"Given the conditions under which you're a young……" — 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 as your sexuality."
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51 Quotes by Kate Millett
Kate Millett has 51 quotes on this site.
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The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it…
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During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can…
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[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a…
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To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing…
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.
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In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make…
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Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical…
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You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility,
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What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.
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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…
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More Conditions Quotes
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one of 1,685 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
— Aristotle
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's…
— Margaret Atwood
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle…
— Bernard Baruch
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always…
— Jane Addams
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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