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.

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

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

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

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

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

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