Arena Quote by Catharine MacKinnon

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence…

— Catharine MacKinnon

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is…

— Catharine MacKinnon

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

— Catharine MacKinnon

Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as…

— Catharine MacKinnon

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male…

— Catharine MacKinnon

“Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.”

— Catharine MacKinnon

Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is…

— Catharine MacKinnon

In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

— Catharine MacKinnon

If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and…

— Catharine MacKinnon