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Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Feminist 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, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species Picture Quote #1

I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn’t feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept Picture Quote #1

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth Picture Quote #1

Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates Picture Quote #1

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for Picture Quote #1

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

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One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible 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

And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can’t begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true Picture Quote #1

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human Picture Quote #1

The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used Picture Quote #1

When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love Picture Quote #1

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I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will Picture Quote #1

Every 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 Picture Quote #1

I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it Picture Quote #1

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don’t we send recipe books to the starving? Picture Quote #1

Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives Picture Quote #1

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman Picture Quote #1

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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 scientist’s maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action Picture Quote #1

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire Picture Quote #1

Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one Picture Quote #1

Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don’t like, including all the women you don’t want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don’t want anything to do with any more. It doesn’t matter who the individual women are Picture Quote #1

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Feminist 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, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn’t feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The annihilation of a woman’s personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible (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) And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can’t begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Every 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 (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) If pornography releases sexual tension, why don’t we send recipe books to the starving? (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman’s son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) 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 scientist’s maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one (Andrea Dworkin Quotes) Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don’t like, including all the women you don’t want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don’t want anything to do with any more. It doesn’t matter who the individual women are (Andrea Dworkin Quotes)

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