Kate Millett
Kate Millett
Katherine Murray "Kate" Millettis an American radical feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a postgraduate degree with first-class honors by St. Hilda's. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics, which was her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth14 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
Psychiatry causes so much death
There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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.
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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.