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• The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

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  Wings, Gone, Graveyard

  "Pornography, Men Possessing Women". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1979.

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• Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

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  Women, Childbearing, Dies

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

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• Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.

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  Sports, Peace, Military

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• No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

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  Women, Needs, Intercourse

  Right-Wing Women ch. 3 (1978)

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• 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.

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  Peace, Men, Practice

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

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• The universal religion - contempt for women.

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  Feminism, Contempt, Universal

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

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  Feminism, Faces, Isolation

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• The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

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  Women, Erotic, Brotherhood

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

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• One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available.

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  Feminist, Degradation, Way

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• Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

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  Mean, Community, Identity

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• For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values - or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be - to be through her son, to live through her son.

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  Family, Mother, Children

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

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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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  Courage, Hero, Giving

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• The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

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  War, Men, Female

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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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  Women, Air, Elements

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

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• Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

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  Three, Abstract, Minutes

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• Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

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  Sex, Class, Feminist

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• Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

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  Hate, Mean, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (2008). “Intercourse”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

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  Two, Doors, Making Love

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• I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

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  Fun, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  "Dworkin on Dworkin," an interview originally published in Off Our Backs, reprinted in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed Ed. by Renate Klein and Diane Bell,

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• Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

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  Mean, Pimp

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• Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

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  Money, Voice, Males

  Pornography: Men Possessing Women ch. 1 (1981)

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• ...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

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  Expression, Feminist, Males

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

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• All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

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  Power, Men, Growth

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• Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

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  World, Outlaw, Dissent

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• 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.

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  Commitment, Equality, Becoming

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