Andrea Dworkin Quotes

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

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  Expression, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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

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  Hate, Sadism, Males

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

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  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

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• 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, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

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  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.

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  Hate, Men, High Heels

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• Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

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  Bravery, Feminism, Males

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• Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

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  Practice, Abduction, Use

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• Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

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  Inspiring, Struggle, Learning

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• We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

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  Marriage, Evil, Nuclear Families

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• I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.

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  Country, Believe, Knives

  "This strong feminist voice was hardly a man-hater" by Robert Jensen, www.chron.com. April 19, 2005.

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

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  Men, Mets

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• We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live ina homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men; all transactions based on equity and individuality take place among men. Men are real; therefore, all real relationship is between men; all real communication is between men; all real reciprocity is between men; all real mutuality is between men.

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  Real, Communication, Men

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• 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.

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  Femininity, Knows, Manhood

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

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  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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

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  Hurt, Men, Pleasure

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• 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 male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.

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  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• 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 as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

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  Heart, Warrior, Will To Survive

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• 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.

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  Class, People, Coward

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• 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 mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

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  Art, Hero, Men

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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

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  Sex, Men, Essentials

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

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  Pride, Men, Identity

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• While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

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  Women, Ideas, Gossip

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• 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. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

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  Religious, Hero, Airplane

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed.

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  Real, Men, Two

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• Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.

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  Fighting, Practice, Class

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