Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.
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When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
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It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way.
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Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.
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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
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All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
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The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right.
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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
