What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it. Kate Millett More Quotes by Kate Millett More Quotes From Kate Millett They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion. Kate Millett sculptureperfectbeautiful 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. Kate Millett rebelspinningway The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Kate Millett true-lovehappinessmean The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence. Kate Millett independentmensex [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. Kate Millett jailmindsteps Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous. Kate Millett homosexualitystatesworld People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way. Kate Millett respectpeopleway Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness. Kate Millett malesdepressingkindness 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 essencechangemean The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person. Kate Millett agreementhumanitysex How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours. Kate Millett crazylustinsanity 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 womenexerciseanimal My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska. Kate Millett nebraskasistersaid 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 agriculturewantedpeople Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter. Kate Millett laughterangernumbers The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities. Kate Millett medialeadershipideas The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. Kate Millett medicineoddscharacter There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days. Kate Millett these-daysmoments 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. Kate Millett revolutionnamesfirsts Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest. Kate Millett lawtwopeople
