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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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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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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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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I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.
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'This husband of yours, he’d rather have his wife a- Rather, have her-' Halyard cleared his throat- 'than go into public relations?''I’m proud to say,' said the girl, 'that he’s one of the few men on earth with a little self-respect left.'
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I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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Let's put it this way: The older you get, the easier it is to date younger men. There are more of them.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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.
