"Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is……" — Andrea Dworkin
"Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover."
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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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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your…
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The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining…
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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
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Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are…
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
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Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit…
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They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,”…
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