Kate Millett (born Katherine Murray Millett; September 14, 1934 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American feminist writer and activist. A seminal influence on second-wave feminism, Millett is best known for her 1970 book Sexual Politics.
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Famous quotes by kate millett:
“Monogamy and prostitution go together.”
—‘J,’ U.S. prostitute. As quoted in Woman in Sexist Society, ch. 3, by Kate Millett (1971)
“We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“I believe there’s a killer in all of us. I know there’s one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“Indeed the involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)