"Men are rewarded for learning the practice of……" — 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 others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them."
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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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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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