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One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

I dream that love without tyranny is possible

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.

Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

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.

The hurting of women is ... basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

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'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

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.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

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.

The universal religion - contempt for women.

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.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

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.

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

I've read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

I didn't believe any words were dirty until I heard the white boys say cunt.

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.

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

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.

Remember: Resist do not comply

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

Men use the night to erase us.

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.

The beauty of a Jewish education is that you learn how to argue.

Touch is the meaning of being human.