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"Every day in life we're told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we're all the same when we remove our hat."
"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."
"No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels."
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
Explore more quotes by Catharine MacKinnon
"In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color."
"Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted."
"To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status."
"What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense."
"If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world."
"So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn."
"Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true."
"In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables."
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