Quotes from Kate Millett

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

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

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.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

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.

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

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

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

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

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