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Woman Quotes by Andrea Dworkin
- 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…
- To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
- 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…
- No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
- 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,…
- Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche…
- 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,…
- Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the…
- Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
- No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the…
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- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
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- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall