| There are 25 quotations for your search 'Andrea Dworkin'. QUOTES AND QUOTATIONS. | |
You can also search for a word.
| Or search for author: |
|
|
| Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| ''Women's fashion'' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defence of women hating. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
|
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
|
| No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| 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 | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
