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Life Quotes by Andrea Dworkin
- In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
- For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,…
- A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy…
- 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…
- 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…
- Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired, can convince the actor…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle