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Catharine MacKinnon Quotes

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Catharine A. MacKinnon (1989). “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, p.3, Harvard University Press

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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

Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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.

Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.148, Harvard University Press

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

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"Reflections on Sex Equality under Law". "The Yale Law Journal", 1991.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.192, Harvard University Press