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.
Source: The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage, speech, first delivered to Queens College, City University of New York, 12 March 1975 (published in Our Blood, ch. 5, 1976).
-- Andrea Dworkin, (Sep 26 1946-2005), US radical feminist, civil rights activist, writer; She worked to have pornography classified as a form of sex discrimination; wrote Woman Hating, 1974.