Catharine MacKinnon Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Catharine MacKinnon:
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
~Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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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.
~Catharine MacKinnon
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