Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the… — 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
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. — 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
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.” — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous,… — 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
“Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“With the possible exception of the Shakers, it is difficult to think of an American movement that has failed more spectacularly than… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by… — 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
“Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, inside the home,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“It had been communicated to me through the odd, secret whispers of women that a female’s nose must never shine. In war,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the possession… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction like bad skin or… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“I'm going to ask you to remember the prostituted, the homeless, the battered, the raped, the tortured, the murdered, the raped-then-murdered, the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“I'm tired, very weary, and I cry for my sisters. Tears get the nothing, of course. One needs a generation of warriors… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Antifeminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of woman hating.” — 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
Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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