Poet Quotes by Andrea Dworkin

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

— Andrea Dworkin

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

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

“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

“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

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

— Andrea Dworkin

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

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

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

— Andrea Dworkin

“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

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

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