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"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated."
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."
"The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad."
"Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery."
"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"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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