Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power? — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
[I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us.… — 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
![“[I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker, one is turned out better but both are…” quote by Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/885/andrea-dworkin-1998_class_i-n-the-male-sexual-lexicon-which-is-the_2514662.png)
