Andrea Dworkin - Male Quotes

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

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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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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.

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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.

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Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

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Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

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