Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.
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- Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. β¨ Andrea Dworkin (2009). Intercourse, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com
- Feminist art... will take the great human themes β love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself β and render them fully human.
- Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. β¨ Our Blood. Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.
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