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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
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Andrea Dworkin
Age: 58 †
Born: 1946
Born: September 26
Died: 2005
Died: April 9
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Camden
New Jersey
Andrea Rita Dworkin
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Erotica is simply high-class pornography better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
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Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
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Remember: Resist do not comply.
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Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
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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.
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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.
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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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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
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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.
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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.
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