Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse (1987)

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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.

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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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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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Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

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

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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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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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