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Kate Millett Biography

Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom" being made possible partially due to Millett's efforts.

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[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.

Fantastic, Jail, Mind, Steps

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

Crazy, Locked Up, See, Tired

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

People, Respect, Right, Somebody, Way

What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.

Hell, Movement, Run, Running

To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

Appreciation, Become, Demand, Expects, Live, Love Is

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

Conquered, Hell, Hospital, Hospitality, Saw, Saws

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.

Mastery, Satisfied, Serve, Sex, Surrender

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.

Certain, Groups, Numbers, Political, Position, Tends

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Begins, Oppression, Revolution, Sexual, Victim

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

Betrayed, Committed, Felt, Life, Mother

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.

Believe, Everybody, Illness, Let, Proof, Supposed

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

Aliens, Culture, Inherited, People, Women

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

Bloody, Ideas, Leadership, Media, Personalities, Whole

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.

Rebel, Revolutionary, Spinning, Way, Wheels

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.

Circumstance, Exploit, Happiness, Love, Mean, True Love

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.

Agriculture, Farm, People, Property, Wanted

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

Days, Happiness, Live, Moments, These Days

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

Against, Aroused, Crazy, Insanity, Lust, Sets

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.

Mean, Bipolar, Doe, Diagnosis, Mental

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

Economic, Elimination, Political, Reality, Traditionally, Women

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