Andrea Dworkin Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Peace, Abuse, Foundation

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• 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.

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  Children, Sleep, Unique

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

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• Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

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  Dna, Abuse, Nuance

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

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• 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.

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  Dream, Real, Men

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

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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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  Women, Ideas, Gossip

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

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• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

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  Reality, Uprising, Dynamics

  "The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental". Book by Rebecca Wanzo, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Real, Communication, Men

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• To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

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  Feminist, Social, Position

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• The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

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  Essence, Choices, Oppression

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

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

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  Men, Males, Use

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

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• Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.

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  Men, Female, Chance

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• One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

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  Men, Differences, Prostitution

  Letters from aWar Zone: Writings 1976 - 1989 "Feminism: An Agenda" (1988).

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• Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

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  Wine, Bottles, Seduction

  "Sexual Economics: The Terrible Truth" (1976)

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• Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.

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  Children, Integrity, Women

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

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  Religious, Hero, Airplane

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

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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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  Funny, Stupid, Men

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

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• Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

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  Ignorance, Self, Able

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

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  Men, Cost, Accepting

  "Life And Death". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1987.

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• Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

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  Class, Political, Discrimination

  "Trouble and Strife", Issues 13-17 (p. 45), 1988.

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• Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.

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  Creative, Intellectual, Dimensions

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

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  Violation, Synonym, Intercourse

  1987 Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

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• 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.

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  Sex, Men, Female

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• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

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  Love, Integrity, Sacrifice

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

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• If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

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  Book, Recipes, Release

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• Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

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  Son, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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

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