Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (1989). Pornography: men possessing women, Plume
More Author Quotes
- Seduction 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)
- So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that l … ▶
- Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (1983). Right-wing women: the … ▶
- Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. ✨ Andrea Dworkin (2009). Intercourse, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com
- We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientis … ▶
Most Cited Authors
William Shakespeare2362
Cassandra Clare2086
Ralph Waldo Emerson2017
Paulo Coelho1839
Rajneesh1644
Sherrilyn Kenyon1633
Mark Twain1626
C. S. Lewis1624
Rick Riordan1549
Oscar Wilde1401
Albert Einstein1372
J. K. Rowling1274
Rumi1268
Friedrich Nietzsche1258
John Green1254
Swami Vivekananda1206
Thomas Jefferson1179
Richelle Mead1130
Barack Obama1115
Henry David Thoreau1086
Terry Pratchett1070
Stephen King1024
Mahatma Gandhi1019
Jodi Picoult1016
Neil Gaiman977
Haruki Murakami976
Laozi972
27
The Best Quotes
Robert Frost 
Mortimer Adler 
Eli Broad 
Amy Hempel 
Kim Stanley 
Pascal Lamy 
Abraham Joshua Heschel 
Marilyn Ferguson 
Arthur Miller 
Jon Postel 
Neal Shusterman 
Billy Sheehan 
John Bunyan 
Jack Kerouac 
Eric Partridge Most Liked Authors
- William Shakespeare46.4k
- Cassandra Clare40.9k
- Ralph Waldo Emerson38.9k
- Paulo Coelho35.9k
- Rajneesh32k
- Sherrilyn Kenyon31.8k
- Mark Twain31.7k
- C. S. Lewis31k
- Rick Riordan30.4k
- Oscar Wilde26.9k
- Albert Einstein26.8k
- J. K. Rowling24.6k
- John Green24.5k
- Friedrich Nietzsche24.4k
- Rumi24.3k
- Swami Vivekananda23.3k
- Thomas Jefferson22.7k
- Richelle Mead22.2k
- Barack Obama21.6k
- Terry Pratchett21k
- Henry David Thoreau20.6k
- Stephen King19.8k
- Jodi Picoult19.8k
- Mahatma Gandhi19.7k
- Neil Gaiman19.2k
- Laozi19.1k
- Haruki Murakami19k
27