3 December 2020 Kate Millett 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.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett I was supposed to be women’s lib, and now I’d exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
3 December 2020 Kate Millett 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.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett 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.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett 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.
3 December 2020 Kate Millett A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.