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Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin

American radical feminist and writer

Lived from: 1946 - 2005

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 26 september 1946 Died: 9 april 2005

  • No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
  • Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
  • Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

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  • 'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
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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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  • Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
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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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  • Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
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  • Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
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  • Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
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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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  • 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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  • While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
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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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  • 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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What are the most famous quotes from Andrea Dworkin?

The two most famous quotes from Andrea Dworkin are:

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

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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."

When did Andrea Dworkin live?

Andrea Dworkin was born in 1946 and died in the year 2005.