Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin: By the time...

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...

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Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...

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Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on...

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Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction...

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Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...

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Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

Andrea Dworkin: 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...

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Andrea Dworkin: Seduction is often...

Andrea Dworkin: Seduction is often...

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of...

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Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and...

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Andrea Dworkin: Marriage as an...

Andrea Dworkin: Marriage as an...

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.

Source: Pornography,...

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Andrea Dworkin: For a mother...

Andrea Dworkin: 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...

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Andrea Dworkin: Women, for centuries...

Andrea Dworkin: Women, for centuries...

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket...

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Andrea Dworkin: You think intercourse...

Andrea Dworkin: 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...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left,...

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Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...

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Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...

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Andrea Dworkin: Undernourished, intelligence becomes...

Andrea Dworkin: Undernourished, intelligence becomes...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body...

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Andrea Dworkin: Poetry, the genre...

Andrea Dworkin: 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...

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Andrea Dworkin: Woman is not...

Andrea Dworkin: 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:...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men are rewarded...

Andrea Dworkin: Men are rewarded...

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration,...

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