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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

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

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

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