Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an… — 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 even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing.… — 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
