All Andrea Dworkin Quotes
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
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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 are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by 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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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
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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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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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Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
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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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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
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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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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
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