"Power is being able to say complete and……" — 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 and proof one has, to not be believed."
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Catharine MacKinnon
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27 Quotes by Catharine MacKinnon
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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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