140 Quotes by Kate Millett

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As.

Comprehending at one bound the myth of Demeter and knowing that she was Demeter, that the fountain between her thighs was my own youth and I Persephone, who had come to her in spring and would come forever, for she was my youth, older than I and yet my youth, my ever-recurrent spring, and spring itself only a metaphor for the source, the waters, the hidden river, the tunnel of life between her thighs.

Perhaps patriarchy’s greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. A.

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.

Let’s always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year – let it always be an affair.

The term “politics” shall refer to power-structured relationships, arrangements whereby one group of persons is controlled by another. By.

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

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