Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this --since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other in other words, women absorb male aggression. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes that all history originates in human flesh that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another that all social change is built on the bone and muscle. . . - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects but, in fact, we live in a homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men. . . - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No woman needs intercourse few women escape it. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of 'I am afraid,' we say, 'I don't want to,' or 'I don't know how,' or 'I can't.' - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs or because he thinks logically and analytically or because he is ''sensitive'' or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired, can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The argument between wives and whores is an old one each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other. - Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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