140 Quotes by Kate Millett

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

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.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility,

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

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

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

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.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.