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
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.
People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.
To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.