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Feminist Quotes by Andrea Dworkin
- 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…
- 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.…
- Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past,…
- We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
- 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.
- Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
- I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.
- Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.
- 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.…
- Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we…
- Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
- 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…
- 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…
More Feminist Quotes
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. — David Bailey
- The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
- I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. — Ruth Benedict
- Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather… — Bjork
- I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. — Elayne Boosler
- I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand
- There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber. — Jo Brand
- I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte
- One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. — Tammy Bruce
- The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley
- A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. — Julie Burchill