Kate Millett

Overview

Kate Millett born St. Paul, MN September 14, 1935. Feminist author who led United Women's Contingent in March against Vietnam War 1971; influential second-wave feminist text Sexual Politics called for social revolution without violence or counter-revolution, 1969; arrested and deported from Iran 1979.

Quotations

"I don’t want, for example, a Green Beret, a Zippo for burning down villages, the ear of a dead of peasant, the burden of the charred flesh a Vietnamese child. Nor do I have any interest in acquiring the habits of violence, warfare (unless in the just cause of self-defense—a cause I cannot foresee ever happening in American foreign policy), or the white man's imperialist racism, or rape or the capitalist exploitation of poverty and ignorance." (Sexual Politics, 1968)

On her pacifism: "I want to speak in favor of and as an advocate of non-violence." (Rosemary Reuther, "Feminism and Peace"; photo Cynthia MacAdams)