Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

Catharine MacKinnon

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• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Soul

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Eyes

• In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Nature
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Done
  • Fame
  • Manager

• I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Know
  • Leader

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Life
  • Romantic
  • Confident

• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Lies

• I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Wish

• 'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Real
  • Bad

• I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.

  

  Alan Ruck
  • Wife
  • Baby
  • Daughter

• That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Money

• Since his election, President Trump has made clear that he and his administration will be focusing on ensuring that the government is a smart buyer, getting the most for the taxpayer's dollar.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Smart
  • Trump

• As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Society

• I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Food

• The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

  

  Herodotus
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Wealth

• I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

  

  Frank O'Hara
  • Die

• They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Dislike
  • Approve
  • Private Opinion

• If you're against same sex marriage but you laugh your ass off to Will & Grace, FUCK YOU holds up middle finger. You are a hypocrite pointing, and you're not allowed to pick and choose what you like from our culture, and leave behind the burden of inequality.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Marriage

• My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Sex
  • Feels
  • Misandry