Quotes by Andrea Dworkin

About Andrea Dworkin:

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

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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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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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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

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Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

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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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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

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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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A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

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When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who ...

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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.

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Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.

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It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the possession of herself, the ownership and effective control of her own body, her seperateness and distinctness, the integrity of her body as hers, not his. ...

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

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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is permeated by the linguistic and perceptual values developed expressly to subordinate women. Men have defined...

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Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom.

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Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, sell cunt; racism i...

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The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, inside the home, acting on behalf of another. This is true even when the woman works outside the home, because she is segregated into women's work, and her...

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I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

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Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameAndrea Dworkin
  • DescriptionFeminist writer
  • BornSeptember 26, 1946
  • DiedApril 9, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEssayist; Novelist