As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
Kate MillettPeople have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
Kate MillettEverybody 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 MillettLet us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.
Kate Millett