The Feminist Movement in the 20th Century - Kate Millett (Essay Date 1998)
KATE MILLETT (ESSAY DATE 1998)
SOURCE: Millett, Kate. “How Many Lives Are Here….” In The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation, edited by Rachel DuPlessis and Ann Snitow, pp. 493-95. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.
In the following essay, Millett recounts the urgency, excitement, and liberating sense of purpose and solidarity experienced by women involved in the feminist movement during the 1960s.
How many lives are here, since for every woman who tells her story in feminism in this ground-breaking collection, there are a thousand others, ten thousand others. For these “representative lives” are only one sampling of a great historical wave. It came at us full tide and from all sides and swept our lives into action, sudden meaning, a transforming vitality, a consuming energy that is still unspent.
History broke over a generation of women who were changed utterly and...
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