Catharine A. MacKinnon Quotes

#1. 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.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#2. In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#3. Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#4. We know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has yet theorized.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#5. [W]hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women ... The state's formal norms recapitulate the male point of view on the level of design.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#6. Man fucks woman; subject verb object.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#7. Male and female are created through the erotization of dominance and submission.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#8. To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is.

Catharine A. MacKinnon