Andrea Dworkin Quotes - Page 5

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• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

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  Mother, Mean, Son

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

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• Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

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  Diversity, Males, Culture

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

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• How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

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  One Love, Domination, Love Someone

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• Remember: Resist do not comply.

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  Remember

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

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• We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

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  Blood, History, Body

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• The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.

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  Art, Father, Real

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• Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fall

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• I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.

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  Feelings, Nightmare, Feels

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• I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the soil in which my life is rooted. It is the soil of our common life together. My life grows out of this soil. In any other soil, I would die. In whatever ways I am strong, I am strong because of the power and passion of this nurturant love.

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  Strong, Passion, Heart

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• Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

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  Class, Consumers, Pornography

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

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• I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.

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  Nature, Book, Thinking

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• The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.

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  Flower, Down And, Cadavers

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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 I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?

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  Love, Running, Art

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• It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

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  Tragedy, Language, Force

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.192, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle.

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  Blood, Principles, Matter

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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

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  Children, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right Wing Women”, Perigee Trade

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• There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

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  Night, Earth, Outsiders

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• For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.

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  Mother, Boys, Projects

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

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• Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

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  Art, Feminist, Suffering

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• Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

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  Sex, Pain, Loneliness

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.

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  Song, Pain, Writing

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• One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.

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  Political, Needs, Economic

  Andrea Dworkin (2000). “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

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  Home, Work Out, Feminist

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• One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.

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  Sex, Radical Feminism, Feminist

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• Men use the night to erase us.

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  Night, Men, Feminist

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