Catharine MacKinnon

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”