Andrea Dworkin - Love Quotes

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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
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
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
No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it — instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love.

Andrea Dworkin
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. If they take it inside with them, they do something else, because society is in the room with them.

Andrea Dworkin