Andrea Dworkin Short Quotes

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

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One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.

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

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

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

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

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There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

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

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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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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

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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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One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

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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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Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

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The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

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Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

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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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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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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.

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Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

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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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