Andrea Dworkin Quotes

The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, insid...

It had been communicated to me through the odd, secret whispers of women that a female’s nose must n...

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

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfectio...

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force ...

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Havi...

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who lov...

Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction l...

The real core of the feminist vision, its revolutionary kernel if you will, has to do with the aboli...

Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal miso...

Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel whe...

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish ...

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world o...

The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, f...

No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That mean...

Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional bat...

It’s not as if there’s an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, ‘There’s my ignorance; it...

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is n...

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

I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially i...

The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the ...

But Dracula, the book, the myth, goes beyond metaphor in its intuitive rendering of an oncoming cent...

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelli...

It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the posse...

A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, t...

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so t...

I listened; I wrote; I learned. I do not know why so many women trusted me enough to speak to me, bu...

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as ...

Feminists know that if women are paid equal wages for equal work, women will gain sexual as well as ...

Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-live...

I'm going to ask you to remember the prostituted, the homeless, the battered, the raped, the torture...

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

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must no...

I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi ab...

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. Yo...

Now, when I talk about a resistance, I am talking about an organized political resistance. I'm not j...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled wit...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this...

I think as feminists we have a way of looking at problems that other people appear not to understand...

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish ...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off...

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is th...

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for thos...

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intell...

Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including...