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.

Catharine MacKinnon

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• Denial

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• 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.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Humor
  • Explore

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• 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.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Afraid
  • Questions
  • Tough

• 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.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Why
  • Dog

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Power
  • Political
  • Black

• There's a seven disc C.D. changer in her car, and I'm in every single slot, and you're not.

  

  Eminem
  • Single
  • Car

• I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

  

  James Gray
  • People
  • Job
  • Envy

• The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Important
  • Silence

• Red wine vinegar has some personality as well acidity.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Personality
  • Red
  • Wine

• 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.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • World
  • Dirty

• I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Done

• '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.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Earth

• This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Work
  • Inspired

• Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions. (p. 402)

  

  Emma Goldman

• The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

  

  Ernesto Sabato
  • Mean
  • Forget
  • Expression

• All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Movie
  • Comedy
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Men
  • Body
  • Use