I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“there is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“...each day I sit down in purposeful concentration to write in a notebook, some sentences on a buried truth, an unnamed reality,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“to permit writers to use forms which violate convention just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“God exacted interest like a loanshark, you paid and kept paying and still He broke all yr bones, one Yom Kippur, at… — 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
