Quotes About Kate Millett

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

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

As I was finishing the copyediting of Bastard, I found myself thinking about all I had read when Kate Millett published Flying: her stated conviction that telling the truth was what feminist writers were supposed to do. That telling the truth—your side of it anyway, knowing that there were truths other than your own—was a moral act, a courageous act, an act of rebellion that would encourage other such acts.

When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over

the old pillars of an old decadent structure, are also built on the sexual fallacy. (Or as one is tempted to pun, phallacy.)