Andrea Dworkin Quotes

• The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

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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.

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• The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

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• A man wants what a woman has__sex. He can steal it (rape), persuade her to give it away (seduction), rent it (prostitution), lease it over the long term (marriage in the United States), or own it outright (marriage in most societies).

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• You think intercourse is a private act; it’s not, it’s a social act. Men are s*xually predatory in life; and women are s*xually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

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• “Women’s fashion” is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

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• Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

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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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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

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• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

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• The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

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• Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

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• Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

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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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• No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

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• Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

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

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• Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

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Birth:	26th September, 1946
Death:	9th April, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Feminist, Writer

About

Andrea Rita Dworkin was born in Camden, New Jersey. She was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women. An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography: Men Possessing Women  and Intercourse, which remain her two most widely known books.

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