Kate Millett Quotes
29 Kate Millett quotes:
"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality."
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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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"Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most."
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"My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska."
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"We have to have an emancipation proclamation for children. What is at issue is children's rights; not the right of sexual access to children."
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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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"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual domination obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power"
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