Kate Millett Quotes

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.