140 Quotes by Kate Millett

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.