American - Activist | September 14, 1934 - September 6, 2017
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett
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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.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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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.
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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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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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