Andrea Dworkin Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values - or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be - to be through her son, to live through her son.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Family, Mother, Children

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

• 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.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Daughter, Mother, Children

• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mother, Mean, Son

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

• For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mother, Boys, Projects

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

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