Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Kate Millet (American Feminist, Writer, Sculptor)

Kate Millett (1934–2017,) in full Katherine Murray Millett, was an American feminist, writer, and sculptor. An early and influential figure in the women’s liberation movement, she advocated radical feminism in her Sexual Politics (1970.)

Born in St Paul, Minnesota, Millett was educated at the University of Minnesota, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and Columbia University, New York. Her bestseller and feminist classic PhD thesis, Sexual Politics (1970,) began exploring the dynamics of power concerning gender and sexuality.

Early in her career as a sculptor, Millett spent some time in Tokyo (1961–63) teaching English at Waseda University. She exhibited in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin. She also founded the Women’s Art Colony Farm at Poughkeepsie, New York State.

Millett’s other publications include The Prostitution Papers (1973,) Going to Iran (1982,) The Loony Bin Trip (1990,) and The Politics of Cruelty (1994.)

Millett’s autobiographies include Flying (1974,) Sita (1977,) and A.D.: A Memoir (1995.) She also wrote Mother Millett (2001) about the problems of aging and her mother’s struggles in particular.

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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Kate Millet
Topics: Women, Men, Men & Women

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.
Kate Millet
Topics: Women

Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
Kate Millet

Isn’t privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
Kate Millet

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
Kate Millet
Topics: Men & Women

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.
Kate Millet
Topics: Sex

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.
Kate Millet
Topics: Romance

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Kate Millet
Topics: Sex

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