Kate Millett Quotes


How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.


Citations

Millett, Kate. The Loony-Bin Trip. Simon & Schuster, 1990.

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Kate Millett
Kate Millett
  • Born: September 14, 1934
  • Died: September 6, 2017
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Feminist Writer, Artist, Activist

Katherine Murray Millett was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes the attainment of previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom" in part to Millett's efforts.