Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Quotes about:

• Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Expression, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  41 Copy quote

• Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  40 Copy quote

• Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Men, High Heels

  93 Copy quote

• Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Sadism, Males

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

  32 Copy quote

• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

  85 Copy quote

• Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

  Andrea Dworkin

  Bravery, Feminism, Males

  47 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspiring, Struggle, Learning

  34 Copy quote

• I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Country, Believe, Knives

  "This strong feminist voice was hardly a man-hater" by Robert Jensen, www.chron.com. April 19, 2005.

  54 Copy quote

• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  Femininity, Knows, Manhood

  31 Copy quote

• I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Mets

  26 Copy quote

• If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, People, Coward

  48 Copy quote

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

  Andrea Dworkin

  Funny, Stupid, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

  18 Copy quote

• A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Hero, Men

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

  75 Copy quote

• The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Men, Pleasure

  10 Copy quote

• The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Sleep, Unique

  "Woman Hating". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1974.

  18 Copy quote

• We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live ina homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men; all transactions based on equity and individuality take place among men. Men are real; therefore, all real relationship is between men; all real communication is between men; all real reciprocity is between men; all real mutuality is between men.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Real, Communication, Men

  16 Copy quote

• Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

  22 Copy quote

• In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Heart, Warrior, Will To Survive

  46 Copy quote

• 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

  Women, Ideas, Gossip

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

  51 Copy quote

• The universal religion - contempt for women.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Feminism, Contempt, Universal

  6 Copy quote

• Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Men, Essentials

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

  33 Copy quote

• Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Dream, Real, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

  22 Copy quote

• We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Marriage, Evil, Nuclear Families

  13 Copy quote

• Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Males, Use

  Andrea Dworkin (2000). “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

Page 1 of 6

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin