Kate Millett People Quotations

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.