“It’s just sex and violence, melody and silence.”
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Urban Hymns (1997)
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Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 235
The allegation that Catharine MacKinnon equated sex with rape, or suggested that all sex is hostile, seems to have been first made in the October 1986 issue of Playboy. Catharine MacKinnon has denied ever saying anything of the kind. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mackinno.htm
Instead MacKinnon asserts that rape and intercourse are "difficult to distinguish" (1983), and that "the major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it" (1989).
Misattributed
“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
“Nor does it impose silence on this sex which does not deserve to be despised.”
N'impose pas non plus silence à ce sexe qui ne mérite pas qu'on le méprise.
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 44, 27082 2892-7]
On women
"Sex and Violence: A Perspective" (1981), p. 88
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
“Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken.”
"Zombie" (1993); written after the Warrington bomb attack of 20 March 1993 · Official video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts