Andrea Dworkin Quotes
Top 51 wise famous quotes and sayings by Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Andrea Dworkin on Wise Famous Quotes.
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
I have spent 20
years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and
scream, that takes 30 seconds.
years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and
scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.
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 on top of them.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
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 if she asserts her will.
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
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.
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.
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.