140 Quotes by Kate Millett

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.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

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

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.