Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women-… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. — 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
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
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by… — 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
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — 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
Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a… — 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
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or… — 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
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — 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
