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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.

Catharine MacKinnon

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Catharine MacKinnon
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
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Minneapolis
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Catharine Alice MacKinnon
Catherine A. MacKinnon
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