Quotes by Kate Millett

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
– Kate Millett
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
– Kate Millett
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual domination obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
– Kate Millett
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
– Kate Millett
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.
– Kate Millett
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
– Kate Millett
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
– Kate Millett
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.
– 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.
– Kate Millett
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.
– Kate Millett
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
– Kate Millett
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
– Kate Millett
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
– Kate Millett