"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography……" — Andrea Dworkin
"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."
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Andrea Dworkin
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109 Quotes by Andrea Dworkin
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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
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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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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
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