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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.
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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Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.
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