People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
Kate MillettMystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.
Kate MillettGiven the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.
Kate MillettIt may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.
Kate Millett