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 More Quotes by Andrea Dworkin More Quotes From Andrea Dworkin I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split. Andrea Dworkin nature book thinking So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender. Andrea Dworkin differences running children Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. Andrea Dworkin outlaw dissent world Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy? Andrea Dworkin running love art One needs either equality or political and economic superiority. Andrea Dworkin economic political needs Men use the night to erase us. Andrea Dworkin feminist men night Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. Andrea Dworkin feminism isolation faces En esta sociedad, la norma de la masculinidad es la agresión fálica. la sexualidad masculina es, por definición, intensamente y rígidamente fálica. la identidad de un hombre se encuentra en su concepción de sí mismo como el poseedor de un falo; valor de un hombre se encuentra en su orgullo por la identidad fálica. la principal característica de la identidad fálica es que vale la pena es totalmente supeditado a la posesión de un falo. ya que los hombres no tienen otros criterios para la pena, hay otra noción de identidad, los que no tienen falos no se reconocen como plenamente humana. Andrea Dworkin 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, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't. Andrea Dworkin People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist. Andrea Dworkin me change believe people I believe couples should have separate bedrooms. Andrea Dworkin couples i-believe should believe As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in. Andrea Dworkin you freedom justice peace My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression. Andrea Dworkin own oppression hatred want I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely unfair. Andrea Dworkin opinion body work way People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval and their own success - and their writing reflects that. Andrea Dworkin understand women success people
