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Andrea Dworkin
By the time...
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...
Romantic love, in...
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...
Sexism is the...
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on...
Genocide begins, however...
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction...
No phallic hero,...
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...
The fact that...
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to...
Seduction is often...
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of...
In this society,...
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and...
Marriage as an...
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage...
Wealth of any...
Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.
Source: Pornography,...
For a mother...
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a...
Women, for centuries...
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket...
You think intercourse...
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are...
Men renounce whatever...
Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left,...
Erotica is simply...
Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...
Being a Jew,...
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...
Undernourished, intelligence becomes...
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body...
Poetry, the genre...
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a...
Woman is not...
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that:...
Men are rewarded...
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration,...