140 Quotes by Kate Millett

Your only mistake then was in trusting the people who brought you here.” I will hear this remark for the rest of my life: it will echo along the walls of my mind until all sound stops for me.

I believe there’s a killer in all of us. I know there’s one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

My sister said, You’re making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

Whatever the “real” differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.

Listening to the sound of the water, her sound, her lovely body glistening through the room a moment from now. There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

No one should be adored, it’s fundamentally immoral.

You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one’s actual self on paper. There’s a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over.

Ah, but depression – that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.