Andrea DworkinFor a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. ✨ Our Blood. Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.371HopeReading
Andrea DworkinAs I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now… ▶362Humanity
Andrea DworkinChildbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (1989). Pornography: men possessing women, Plume341Death
Andrea DworkinMen are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy a… ▶353DeathHumanityLove
Andrea DworkinWe have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willin… ▶364Humor
Andrea DworkinAny violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (2009). Intercourse, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com331ReadingTruth
Andrea DworkinThe 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.331Hope
Andrea DworkinIt 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. … ▶343PoliticsReading
Andrea DworkinThe 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 aro… ▶321DeathLife
Andrea DworkinI'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. b… ▶377Time
Andrea DworkinFeminist 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 … ▶322DeathHumanityLove
Andrea DworkinWhen two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.323Love
Andrea DworkinSurely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.301Philosophy
Andrea DworkinA commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.323Reading
Andrea DworkinThe hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.313Reflection
Andrea DworkinFreedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably … ▶368HumanityLifeTruth
Andrea DworkinI don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered w… ▶335HumanityPolitics
Andrea DworkinWomen, 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 … ▶281Reading
Andrea DworkinI dream that love without tyranny is possible336Love
Andrea DworkinEvery three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.369Death
Andrea DworkinThe tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (1983). Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated… ▶303Politics
Andrea DworkinSeduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. ✨ Sexual Economics: The Terrible Truth (1976)358Truth
Andrea DworkinMen 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… ▶3710Politics
Andrea DworkinInstitutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.282Humanity
Andrea DworkinBy 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. ✨ Ou… ▶261ReadingTime
Andrea DworkinThe essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (1989). Pornog… ▶305Time
Andrea DworkinMen are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring thei… ▶294Politics
Andrea DworkinWhile gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ✨ Andrea Dworkin… ▶3510PoliticsThoughtTruth
Andrea DworkinHeterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.3410Death
Andrea DworkinNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it. ✨ Right-Wing Women ch. 3 (1978)251Death
