"A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer inste...
I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.
More Andrea Dworkin quotes
"It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the possession of herself, the ownership and effective cont...
"Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in...
"But Dracula, the book, the myth, goes beyond metaphor in its intuitive rendering of an oncoming century filled with sexual horror: the throat as a fem...
"The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of human cruelty - the realm of history - it...
"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is permeate...
"It had been communicated to me through the odd, secret whispers of women that a female’s nose must never shine. In war, in famine, in fire, it had to ...
"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 t...
"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 r...
"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 fr...
"Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction like bad skin orcircles under the eyes. It is not a...
"The real core of the feminist vision, its revolutionary kernel if you will, has to do with the abolition of all sex roles - that is, an absolute trans...
"Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all per...
"Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; ...
"The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish to use her. She is then a provocation. The object ...