Kate Millett Quotes

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Kate Millett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1934 - September 6, 2017

Topics

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I got a lot of whoopings back in the day. I was a very curious kid.

John David Washington

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I like playing characters with internal problems.

Michael Eklund

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In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

Simon McBurney

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I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

Mike Weir

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I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

Luke Ford

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Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

Diane Paulus

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I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

Clayton M. Christensen

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A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Clive Thompson

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There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.

Autre Ne Veut

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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Alfred Stieglitz

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We need to heal this country.

Susan Collins

CountryNeedHeal

NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.

Sean Hayes

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