"No phallic hero, no matter what he does……" — Andrea Dworkin
"No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth."
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109 Quotes by Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin has 109 quotes on this site.
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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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More Birth Quotes
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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