"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
-Kate Millett
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"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.“
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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."
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"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."
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"We are naive 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."
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"I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics."
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"Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being."
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