Kate Millett Quotes

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Every time a male coach berates his players by referring to them as “ladies” or tells them to “hike their skirts” while playing, we’re perpetuating an atmosphere where women are not men’s equals.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.

I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Men are irrelevant.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.