Andrea Dworkin Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Struggle, Learning

• 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.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

• On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Self, Expression, Feminist

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

• ...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Feminist, Males

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

• Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Commitment, Men, Violence

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

• Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sports, Peace, Military

• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Peace, Men, Practice

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

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