Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired, can… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
“Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction like bad skin or circles under… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
“Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are “sex-negative” without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
“people ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesnt keep you from dying, making love doesnt keep you… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share
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