The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

- Catharine Mackinnon

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

- Catharine Mackinnon

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

- Catharine Mackinnon

Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male…

- Catharine Mackinnon

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

- Catharine Mackinnon

Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were …

- Catharine Mackinnon

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.

- Catharine Mackinnon

Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexu…

- Catharine Mackinnon

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

- Catharine Mackinnon