"One can know everything and still be unable……" — Andrea Dworkin
"One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible."
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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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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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