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Dworkin argues that men are often praised and rewarded for violent behavior in many areas. She describes domination as a ravenous beast that never feels satisfied. She also points out a double standard: men show care through aggression while women are expected to be gentle.

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I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.

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Men use the night to erase us.

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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

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The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

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One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

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Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

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Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

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I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

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I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in…

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Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called…

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The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only…

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Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant…

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Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live…

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The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a…

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I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it,…

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Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to…

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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our…

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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension…

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Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's…

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Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the…

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Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by…

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Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into…

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The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this…

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We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous,…

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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity…

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A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,…

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Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of…

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We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact,…

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Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are…

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Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a…

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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are…

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Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us.…

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You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are…

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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions…

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The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the…

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As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy…

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Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of…

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“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…

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

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…

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows…

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

“people ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesnt keep you from dying, making love doesnt keep you…

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…

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going…

Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male…

The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body,…

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…