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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. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way. ↗

— Kate Millett

#bad #dead #likely #love #love is

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

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history. ↗

— Kate Millett

#been #children #history #minors #more

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different. ↗

— Kate Millett

#circumstances #cultures #different #experiences #female

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

#idleness #mind #stupidity

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

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