140 Quotes by Kate Millett

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

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.

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.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

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

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.