Andrea Dworkin - Women Quotes

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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

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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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Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women.

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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

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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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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.

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

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Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

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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.

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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 characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

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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 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.

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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.

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

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Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

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