Best Andrea Dworkin Quotations
- Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they… Crime
- The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and… Any
- A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the… Becoming
- Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to… Abduction
- Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of… Been
- Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit… All
- Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Affirms
- You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When… Act
- The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy… All
- Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. Bother
- Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. Commitment
- Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it… Dead
- Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. Begins
- So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear.… Adults
- I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice… All
- Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow,… Annihilated
- The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice. Choice
- If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk… Class
- Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does… Abandonment
- It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom… All
- In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now… Act
- We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine… Built
- Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. Abuse
- Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others… Activity
- Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates. Advocates
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