"Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of……" — Catharine MacKinnon

"Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men."

— Catharine MacKinnon

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27 Quotes by Catharine MacKinnon

Catharine MacKinnon has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible…
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is…
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that…
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…
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and…
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire…
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it…
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they…
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

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More Abuse Quotes

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale… — Bob Barr
I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just… — Roseanne Barr
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the… — Carol Bellamy
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing… — Anthony Bourdain
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I… — Jo Brand
I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of… — Jo Brand

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