Quotes from Kate Millett

Monogamy and prostitution go together.

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.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

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

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.

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

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

And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but forever just out of reach. It is not lack of interest, but interest frustrated, cut off, imperfectly held. So says the Chronicle today. But for me it is the fear of emptiness.

It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

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

Whatever the "real" differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.

Let's always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year - let it always be an affair.