Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Catharine MacKinnon

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• Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Something
  • Feminism

• My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Sexuality
  • Phase

• I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Treat
  • Sexuality

• 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Word
  • Feminist
  • Feminism

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Want
  • Choose
  • Feminism

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • She
  • Please

• Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Time
  • Way
  • Sexuality

• I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Good
  • Women
  • Deep

• I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Speak

• While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Women
  • Serious
  • Mistakes

• Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • People
  • World
  • Feminism

• Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Change
  • Value
  • Feminism

• Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

  

  Melanie Klein
  • Mind
  • Yoga
  • Feminism

• Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • People
  • Feminism
  • Accessory

• I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same time. A few have said something like, "During dating, he was all about feminism. But now I have to ask him to help with the children, I have to ask him to do the dishes, and every time he does, it's like a favor. Where's the feminist I married?" That's theoretical feminism, not practical feminism. I don't think we're all where we need to be. I don't know if we will be in my lifetime. Life is imperfect. But interesting.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Women
  • Family
  • Something

• 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different layers, because they are all a part of the character.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Different
  • Character
  • Identity

• The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Criticism
  • Judgment
  • Motion

• Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Sexuality
  • Feminism
  • Marxism