Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. — 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
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 Image
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 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, he cares-a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
