"Men, permitted to put words (and other things)……" — Catharine MacKinnon
"Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed."
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27 Quotes by Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine MacKinnon has 27 quotes on this site.
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You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible…
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The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is…
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
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An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that…
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Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...
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Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what…
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and…
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In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire…
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Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it…
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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they…
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