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Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it Picture Quote #1

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it Picture Quote #1

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free Picture Quote #1

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis Picture Quote #1

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine Picture Quote #1

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it Picture Quote #1

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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable Picture Quote #1

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love Picture Quote #1

By 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. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't Picture Quote #1

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity Picture Quote #1

Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act Picture Quote #1

The pornographers actually use our bodies as their language. We are their speech.... Protecting what they 'say' means protecting what they do to us, how they do it. It means protecting their sadism on our bodies, because that is how they write: not like a writer at all; like a torturer Picture Quote #1

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I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Men 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 their sacred and proven masculinity Picture Quote #1

Women, 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 what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do Picture Quote #1

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The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too Picture Quote #1

The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility Picture Quote #1

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man Picture Quote #1

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized Picture Quote #1

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover Picture Quote #1

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity Picture Quote #1

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The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other Picture Quote #1

Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men Picture Quote #1

The 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 around it, scouring the Earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude Picture Quote #1

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this Earth can be traced back to its source: The phallic identities of men Picture Quote #1

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination Picture Quote #1

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer Picture Quote #1

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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) By 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. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The pornographers actually use our bodies as their language. We are their speech.... Protecting what they 'say' means protecting what they do to us, how they do it. It means protecting their sadism on our bodies, because that is how they write: not like a writer at all; like a torturer (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) 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) 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 (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) 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 (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Men 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 their sacred and proven masculinity (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Women, 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 what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The 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 around it, scouring the Earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this Earth can be traced back to its source: The phallic identities of men (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer (Andrea Dworkin Quotes)

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