Kate Millett Quotes

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'