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
You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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.
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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.
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.
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.
Psychiatry causes so much death
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.