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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• 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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• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

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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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• My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.

  

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• Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

  

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• It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

  

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• How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.

  

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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