Catharine MacKinnon Quotes About Abuse

• Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Believe, Men, Radical Feminism

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.5, Harvard University Press

• Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Crecer, Dolor, Padre

  "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.

• 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

  Mean, Abuse, Groups

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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