Kate Millett Quotes

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield “lordship” over another.

I, having no legal means of divesting myself of these odious powers put on record a formal protest against the existing law of marriage.

If a husband and wife be divorced, she shall have her own property that she came with to her husband, and the half of the income if it be from her own property

Marriage has been undermined by divorce ... Don't blame the gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexual community.