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  1. 246 quotes from Andrea Dworkin: 'Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed.

    • Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. Andrea Dworkin. Expression, Radical Feminism, Feminist.
    • Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future.
    • Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.
    • Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. Andrea Dworkin. Hate, Sadism, Males.
    • Quotes on Pornography
    • On Masculinity and Men
    • On Rape Culture and Sex
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    "Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act." [Andrea testimony before the New York Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in 1986] "Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are asto...

    "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." "Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recogn...

    "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."" "Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bo...

    "Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating." "Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact." "Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. S...

    • 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.
    • Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. Andrea Dworkin.
    • 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.
    • Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
  2. Jan 29, 2024 · Quotes [edit] I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind. "Dworkin on Dworkin," an interview originally published in Off Our Backs, reprinted in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed Ed. by Renate Klein and Diane Bell.

  3. Andrea Dworkin's quote, "The Left is afraid of losing, but I think the status quo is even worse than losing," encapsulates her passionate commitment to challenging oppressive systems and advocating for social change.

  4. Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin. 2,311 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 244 reviews. Open Preview. Intercourse Quotes Showing 1-27 of 27. “Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom.

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