Andrea Dworkin Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Essence, Choices, Oppression

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

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

  Andrea Dworkin

  Choices, Feminist, Intercourse

  "They took my body from me and used it" by Andrea Dworkin, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

• Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Mean, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (2008). “Intercourse”, p.134, Hachette UK

• We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Choices, Feminist, Mazes

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