Kate Millett

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.