"I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural.……" — Andrea Dworkin
"I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence."
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Andrea Dworkin
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109 Quotes by Andrea Dworkin
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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
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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,…
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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live…
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For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.
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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…
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Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
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In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
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To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
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Men use the night to erase us.
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The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate…
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