Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Andrea Dworkin Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
1
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
2
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
3
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
4
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.
5
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
6
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
7
My hatred is precious. I don’t want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.
8
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.
9
Only when manhood is dead – and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it – only then will we know what it is to be free.
10
‘Women’s fashion’ is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
11
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
12
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
13
Men know everything – all of them – all the time – no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
14
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.
15
You think intercourse is a private act; it’s not, it’s a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
