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Quotes from Kate Millett

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.
~ Kate Millett
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
~ 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
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
~ Kate Millett
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
~ Kate Millett
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
~ Kate Millett
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
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
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
~ Kate Millett
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
~ Kate Millett
What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.
~ 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 of the young.
~ 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
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
~ Kate Millett