Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin Quotes
50 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more — also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
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.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
It has always been to me, the ocean, overwhelming, monstrous, deep, dark, green and black, so foreign that it requires respect, silence, humility.... All of the life in it is menacing, compelling, exquisite, with nothing consoling.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
I love books the way I love nature.... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
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.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
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.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
Andrea Dworkin
1
2
Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Andrea Dworkin
Born:
September 26, 1946
Died:
April 9, 2005
(aged 58)
Bio:
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.
Known for:
Woman Hating (1974)
Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981)
Intercourse (1987)
Right-wing women (1983)
Letters from a war zone (1988)
Most used words:
women
men
pornography
male
sexual
love
woman
marriage
left
sexuality
time
power
violence
intercourse
defined
Andrea Dworkin on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Andrea Dworkin Quotes
Andrea Dworkin Short Quotes
American Feminist Quotes
Feminist Quotes
20th-century Feminist Quotes
20th-century Women
Women Feminists
Related People
Catharine MacKinnon
American Activist
Robin Morgan
American Feminist
Susan Brownmiller
American Journalist
Family
John Stoltenberg
Spouse
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes