Andrea Dworkin Quotes - Page 4

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• On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

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  Self, Expression, Feminist

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

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• Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

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  Power, Men, Names

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

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• Does the sun ask itself, "Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?" No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?" No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?" No, it burns, it shines.

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  Moon, Thinking, Shining

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• I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

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  Book, Writing, Men

  "Modern Times" with Larry Josephson, (American Public Radio), www.andreadworkin.com. 1992.

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• Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.

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  Acting, Dying, Dolls

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

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• Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

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  Believe, Reality, Suffering

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• The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

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  Suicide, Survival, Tragedy

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

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• We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.

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  Hurt, Suicidal, Jealous

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• And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.

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  Real, Mean, Practice

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• The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.

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  Men, Males, Needs

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• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

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  Running, Art, Real

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• Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

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  Women, Believe, Bears

  Pornography: Men Possessing Women ch. 5 (1981)

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• You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

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  Men, Thinking, Doors

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• Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.

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  Ideas, World, Dangerous

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• I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.

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  Giving, Accounting, Has Beens

  Andrea Dworkin (2010). “Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

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  Choices, Feminist, Intercourse

  "They took my body from me and used it" by Andrea Dworkin, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

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• We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.

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  Choices, Feminist, Mazes

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• Touch is the meaning of being human.

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  Being Human, Humans

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• [I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker, one is turned out better but both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.

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  Girl, Vocabulary, Class

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

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• Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?

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  Art, Ambition, Imagination

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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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  Mean, Men, Sight

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

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• Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

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  Fashion, Women, Men

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

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• So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.

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  Running, Children, Differences

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• 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.

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  Rights, Self, Brave

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