"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."

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

Catharine MacKinnon

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“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
“I don't think I'm saying anything wrong. And that's just how I judge it. I believe it's not so much about the people, that's just my take. I think making it about people is the wrong way to do it. I think it's the systems. The systems are broken; the systems are what need to be fixed. I think there's bad people in every sector of America.”

Source : "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". Interview with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons of your life story...”
“This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.”
“I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”
“I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.”
“I look cooking! Particularly pad thai.”

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