Andrea Dworkin Quotes

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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
• We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman…
• Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
• By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it,…
• For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.
• I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of…
• Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
• In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
• To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
• Men use the night to erase us.
• The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still…
• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.…
• On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm…
• 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…
• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.…
• Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
• The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and…
• Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
• No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

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