Feminism Quote by Catharine A. MacKinnon Download Open image ““To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is.”” — Catharine A. MacKinnon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism
To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn’t care what a woman wants. If he did, he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Rape is so particularly traumatic and so meaningful in so many ways, that there’s something about using the word in other contexts that diminishes… — Sandra Brindley Copy Share Image
“Still trying to figure out the dynamics of rights and responsibilities as a woman? How about striking out the word Woman and making it… — Haritha Velpureddy Copy Share Image
“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Do not feel arrogant that you have a dick and women do not. Women are not scared of fucking; they are only scared of… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“A woman may be looked upon as an object for sexual satisfaction but her multifarious roles and diversified approaches make her a complex being… — Dr. Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
“There is no true femininity without sensuality. Otherwise it’s called feminism.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“A woman who is herself only a sexual object, lives finally in a world of objects, unable to touch in others the individual identity… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Society was telling you that if you speak out, you're going to be labeled, like this feminist crazy person, difficult, difficult to work with… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
“We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice; they were… — Catharine A. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“This defines the task of feminism not only because male dominance is perhaps the most pervasive and tenacious system of power in history, but… — Catharine A. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Women, it is said, possess corresponding power. Through consciousness-raising, women found that women's so-called power was the other side of female powerlessness. A women's… — Catharine A. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins… — Annastacia Dickerson Copy Share Image
“In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only… — Helen Brown Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image