Kate Millett Quotes - Page 3

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• I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

  Kate Millett

  Believe, Want, Killers

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.506, University of Illinois Press

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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  Kate Millett

  Mother, Betrayed, Committed

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• A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

  Kate Millett

  Change, Real, Circles

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.360, University of Illinois Press

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• 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.

  Kate Millett

  Mean, Bipolar, Doe

  "Imagine, Dignity with Mental Illness - Much Work to Do" by Kerry Ryan-Kuhn, June 12, 2013.

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• Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, People, Rude

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.67, University of Illinois Press

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• Psychiatry causes so much death

  Kate Millett

  Causes, Psychiatry

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• 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

  Husband, Hands, Government

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• I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

  Kate Millett

  Believe, People, Monogamy

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.105, University of Illinois Press

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• They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Tired, Locked Up

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• 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.

  Kate Millett

  Agriculture, People, Wanted

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• We are naïve 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

  Blight, Human Condition, Humans

  Kate Millett (1975). “Flying”

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• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

  Kate Millett

  Morning, Divorce, Men

  "Divorce law reform: beyond the hausfrau and pater familias" by Hannah Betts, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• 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.

  Kate Millett

  Believe, Illness, Proof

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• I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

  Kate Millett

  Gone, International, Supposed To Be

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

  Kate Millett

  Saws, Hospitality, Hell

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• Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

  Kate Millett

  Depression, Hate, Suffering

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.72, University of Illinois Press

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• What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.

  Kate Millett

  Running, Movement, Hell

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.12, University of Illinois Press

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

  Kate Millett

  Housework

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• Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

  Kate Millett

  Want, Hell, Grows

  Kate Millett (1977). “Sita”

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• You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

  Kate Millett

  America, Self, Paper

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.83, University of Illinois Press

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

  Kate Millett

  Love Is, Way

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sexual Politics”, p.336, University of Illinois Press

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• one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

  Kate Millett

  Blessing, Adulthood

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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