Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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Some people would like me to be round again.
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
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Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.
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There's a seven disc C.D. changer in her car, and I'm in every single slot, and you're not.
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Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
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I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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Red wine vinegar has some personality as well acidity.
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A lot of times, you're interacting with people for whom you're one of the very few veterans that they've met or had a lot of interactions with, and there's a temptation for you to feel like you can pontificate about what the experience was or what it meant, and that leads to a lot of nonsense.
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I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.
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The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
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If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
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I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.
