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Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

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Andrea Dworkin
Age: 58 †
Born: 1946
Born: September 26
Died: 2005
Died: April 9
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
Andrea Rita Dworkin
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In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
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Does the sun ask itself, Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me? No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today? No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies? No, it burns, it shines.
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Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
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There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle.
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The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.
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Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy of sadism, of dominance.
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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.
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No woman needs intercourse few women escape it.
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