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 More Quotes by Andrea Dworkin More Quotes From Andrea Dworkin The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice. Andrea Dworkin oppression choices essence We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil. Andrea Dworkin nuclear-families marriage evil Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. Andrea Dworkin childbearing women dies If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving? Andrea Dworkin release recipes book Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives. Andrea Dworkin passion men art One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man. Andrea Dworkin prostitution differences men Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. Andrea Dworkin pimp mean On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom. Andrea Dworkin feminist expression self The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide. Andrea Dworkin survival tragedy suicide I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it. Andrea Dworkin cost accepting men Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. Andrea Dworkin suffering believe reality When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Andrea Dworkin making-love doors two I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. Andrea Dworkin writing men book Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men. Andrea Dworkin women integrity children I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will. Andrea Dworkin accounting has-beens giving Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. Andrea Dworkin women fashion men Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. Andrea Dworkin motivational inspirational fall A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. Andrea Dworkin equality becoming commitment In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice. Andrea Dworkin intercourse feminist choices Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Andrea Dworkin males diversity culture
