Kate Millett Quotes
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Men were created to have facial hair like women were created to be smooth-faced. Well, not all women. I've seen pockets where that's not the case, and that's not good.
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Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that's called karma.
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My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.
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Themes around education and learning run through my work.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
