Kate Millett Quotes

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

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

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• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

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• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

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• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

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• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

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• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

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• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

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• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

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• I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

  

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• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

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• U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.

  

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• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

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• While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

  

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• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

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• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

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• We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.

  

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• The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our principal problem is still Israels leaders unwillingness to say in a simple manner that the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

  

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• Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.

  

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• America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

  

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• 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
  • Women
  • Revolution
  • Oppression