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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. ↗

— Kate Millett

#being there #diagnosis #does #god #hopeless

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. ↗

— Kate Millett

#believes #concede #everybody #good #i

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. ↗

— Kate Millett

#ethics #involuntary #itself #medicine #odds

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. ↗

— Kate Millett

#concept #culture #dominion #fundamental #however

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully. ↗

— Kate Millett

#divided #had #hell #hospital #i

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics. ↗

— Kate Millett

#gone #i #international #into #lib

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. ↗

— Kate Millett

#identity #longer #mute #responsibility #say

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. ↗

— Kate Millett

#because #boxed #days #farm #got

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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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. ↗

— Kate Millett

#could #did #far #had #horrifying

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. ↗

— Kate Millett

#better #conditioning #could #discriminated #found