All Andrea Dworkin Quotes
- We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as… Action
- Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it… Any
- One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that… Available
- The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are… Aberration
- ...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom. Action
- Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role. Exploitation
- Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. Another Woman
- Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in… Any
- Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. Human
- The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide. Cannot Recognize
- How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se? Anyone
- Violation is a synonym for intercourse. Inspirational
- I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind. Feminist
- Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of… Accepting
- And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because… Begin
- Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. Any
- Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women. Ahistorical
- Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. Freedom
- Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. Art
- Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge… Able
- The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and… Cadaver
- When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Bedroom
- I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give… Accounting
- Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her… Able
- Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening… Abstract