140 Quotes by Kate Millett

Sexual politics obtains consent through the “socialization” of both sexes to basic patriarchal polities with regard to temperament, role, and status. As.

I don’t believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

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

The subordinated group has inadequate redress through existing political institutions, and is deterred thereby from organizing into conventional political struggle and opposition.

Isn’t privacy about keeping taboos in their place.

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.

The derogation of feminine status in lesser males is a consistent patriarchal trait. Like.

Lady,” we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a kind of exorcism against “saleslady,” “old lady,” “ladylike.” Relishing the anachronism, even the formality a type of aphrodisiac, a contrast to our delight in the horny, the vulgar, the vernacular which we cultivate just as ardently.

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.