Catharine MacKinnon Quotes

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• You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
• The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as…
• All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
• Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
• An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their…
• Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...
• Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
• To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you,…
• In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
• In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of…
• Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality.…
• In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
• In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a…
• Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
• So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going…
• If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then…
• Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and…
• People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
• It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

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