“ 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
“ Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. Kate Millett
“ I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics. Kate Millett
“ However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. 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
“ 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… Kate Millett
“ Girl next to me at the baggage counter said she wrote her way to liberation. How did you handle first person narrative, I asked her. And said she knew the hole of depression, had been there. But I am… Kate Millett
“ Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. 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
“ 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… Kate Millett
“ Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your life, does the decision to do so change the shape of the day? On… Kate Millett
“ Support Gay Liberation the whole way. But forget the practice. Nothing in it but the pain. They can say in public that I'm queer, but that doesn't mean I have to be. Tell the truth––then outwit it in… Kate Millett
“ Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before. Kate Millett
“ Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves a… Kate Millett
“ It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection and its familiar protestations of respect, rests upon the… Kate Millett
“ ...we touched each other's center, perfectly, just the fingertip upon the clitoris moving more and more slowly, our eyes steady on each other and the delicate pressure fine and more fine until all mot… Kate Millett
