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Thinking Quotes by Andrea Dworkin

7 Thinking quotes by Andrea Dworkin

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Thinking, for Andrea Dworkin, is an act of resistance that challenges entrenched power structures. Her sharp prose forces readers to confront uncomfortable assumptions, turning everyday mental habits into sites of political struggle and personal liberation.

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Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has…

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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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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an…

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Does the sun ask itself, "Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?" No, it burns and it shines.…

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I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost…

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The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not…

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

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

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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 genuflection of…

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“Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction like bad skin or circles under…

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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…

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

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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 the polar…

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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 beast grows…

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

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

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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…

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

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