Kate Millett Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.”
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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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“We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.”
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“Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.”
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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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“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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“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”
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“They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.”
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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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“The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.”
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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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“Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.”
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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.”
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“To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.”
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“The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.”
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“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.”
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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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“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”
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“It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.”
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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.”
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“I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.”
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“It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.”
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“Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.”
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“My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.”
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“[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 and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
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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 undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.”
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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.”
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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 your husband doesn't like you.”
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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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“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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