The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.
Kate MillettThis is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
Kate MillettMany women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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