Quote

Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.

Andrea Dworkin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Face
Faces
Woman
Abuser
Ever
Abusers
Isolation
Feminism
Exists
Alone

More quotes by Andrea Dworkin

Image
In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I have to ask you to resist, not to 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
Image
Erotica is simply high-class pornography better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
Andrea Dworkin
Image
Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
No woman needs intercourse few women escape it.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Andrea Dworkin
Image
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?
Andrea Dworkin
Image
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
Image
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.
Andrea Dworkin