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Catharine A. MacKinnon

  • The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

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

  • If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

    • Catharine A. MacKinnon,
    • in San Francisco Examiner ()
  • Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

    • Catharine A. MacKinnon,
    • "Women and Law: The Power to Change," in Sisterhood Is Powerful ()

Catharine A. MacKinnon, U.S.lawyer, educator, scholar, feminist, activist

(1946)