Quotes by Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin was an American feminist writer, activist, and speaker who played a significant role in the feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s. She was known for her radical and controversial views on pornography and sexual violence, advocating for the abolition of pornography and the criminalization of all forms of sexual violence. Her work sparked intense debate and criticism, but also inspired many women to take up the fight against misogyny and patriarchal power structures. Dworkin died in 2005, but her legacy continues to influence feminist discourse and activism to this day. (Bio)
Andrea Dworkin Quotes
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. (Meaning)
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
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.
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.
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
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.
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.
To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
― Andrea Dworkin Quotes
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