Andrea Dworkin Quotes

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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
— Andrea Dworkin Pornography

language

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
— Andrea Dworkin Letters From a War Zone: Writings 1976–1989

marriage

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air.  It is our element.  We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air.  It is our element.  We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it.
— Andrea Dworkin Our Blood

fear

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. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
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.
— Andrea Dworkin Right-Wing Women

men and women gossip

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
— Andrea Dworkin Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

courage birth

The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so called seed, reaps a harvest – he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so called seed, reaps a harvest – he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.
— Andrea Dworkin

sex

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.
— Andrea Dworkin Pornography

violence