Quote by Kate Millett
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipula

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

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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. – Kate Millett

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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. – 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 doesnt like you. – Kate Millett

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