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Kate Millett

9 quotes

A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Kate Millett clearly understood the power of language. The range of their thinking — from Politics to Women — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 10 quotes from Kate Millett, each offering a different angle on Politics, Women, Romantic, Morning, and Government. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

“What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?”

— Kate Millett

Freedom

All Quotes by Kate Millett

“Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.”

— Kate Millett

Morning

“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”

— Kate Millett

Politics

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

— Kate Millett

Women

“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.”

— Kate Millett

Romantic

“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”

— Kate Millett

Women

“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.”

— Kate Millett

Politics

“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.”

— Kate Millett

Change

“What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?”

— Kate Millett

Freedom

“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.”

— Kate Millett

Government