"Women are raped and coerced into sex."

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Source : "Reflections on Sex Equality under Law". "The Yale Law Journal", 1991.

Catharine MacKinnon

“The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.”

Source : "Gratitude for Viktor Frankl" by Peg Melnik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2014.
“Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.”
“The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.”
“Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.”
“If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.”
“Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.”
“A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.”
“And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.”

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