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Kate Millett is an American writer and feminist, born on September 14, 1934. Her works hold significant status in the field of feminist literature, with notable titles including 'Sexual Politics' and 'Scapegoat'.

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“The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.”

Knows Men Needs Suits

Author:Kate Millett

“We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Know How Conditions Human Condition Blight

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.”

Knows Want Believe Courses I Believe Killers

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”

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Author:Kate Millett

“What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.”

Knows Running Hell Movement

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

About the Author

Born: September 14, 1934
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 76

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