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Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Remember: Resist do not comply Picture Quote #1

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating Picture Quote #1

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? Picture Quote #1

I 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 why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It's not because there's a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence Picture Quote #1

A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered Picture Quote #1

Touch is the meaning of being human Picture Quote #1

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The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world Picture Quote #1

In my own life, I don’t have intercourse. That is my choice Picture Quote #1

Men use the night to erase us Picture Quote #1

I dream that love without tyranny is possible Picture Quote #1

The hurting of women is... basic to the sexual pleasure of men Picture Quote #1

I never met a man who wasn’t stupider than me Picture Quote #1

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... In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom Picture Quote #1

Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman Picture Quote #1

The annihilation of a woman’s personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality Picture Quote #1

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil Picture Quote #1

Women’s fashion’ is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A 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 Picture Quote #1

As long as there is rape. There is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Men 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 system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name Picture Quote #1

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use Picture Quote #1

While 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 Picture Quote #1

Women have been taught that, for us, the Earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not Picture Quote #1

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact Picture Quote #1

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination Picture Quote #1

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Remember: Resist do not comply (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) 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 Quotes) Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) I 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 why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It's not because there's a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Touch is the meaning of being human (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) In my own life, I don’t have intercourse. That is my choice (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Men use the night to erase us (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) I dream that love without tyranny is possible (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The hurting of women is... basic to the sexual pleasure of men (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) I never met a man who wasn’t stupider than me (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) ... In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The annihilation of a woman’s personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality. (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil. (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Women’s fashion’ is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) 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. (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) "Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) A 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 (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) As long as there is rape. There is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) 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 (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Men 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 system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) 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 (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) While 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 Quotes) Women have been taught that, for us, the Earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination (Andrea Dworkin Quotes)

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