Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Juliet Mitchell (British Feminist, Writer)

Juliet Mitchell (b.1934) was a New Zealand-born British writer, psychoanalyst, and feminist. She is well known for her critique of socialist thought and feminist theory and the importance of siblings.

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, she moved to Britain at age ten. She was educated at King Allred School, Hampstead, London, and St Anne’s College, Oxford. After getting a DPhil from Oxford, she lectured at Leeds and Reading.

Mitchell worked as a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, freelance writer, and broadcaster. She has also lectured on psychoanalysis throughout the world. She has continued to hold further visiting professional appointments in Europe and the USA since joining the University of Cambridge in 1996, where she established the Centre for Gender Studies.

Mitchell’s publications include Women’s Estate (1972,) Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974,) and Women: The Longest Revolution (1966.) The latter was the first sustained analysis of women’s oppression in Britain.

She has also co-authored with British sociologist Ann Oakley The Rights and Wrongs of Women (1976) and What is Feminism (1986.)

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In a way, this diversity is very exciting, but one has at some point to ask: are these real beginnings, or so many false starts?
Juliet Mitchell

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.
Juliet Mitchell
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