“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
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: peace
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“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
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: women
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“Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.”
— Andrea Dworkin
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: power
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“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
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: faith
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“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.”
— Andrea Dworkin
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: women
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“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.”
— Andrea Dworkin
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: women
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“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.”
— Andrea Dworkin
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: women
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“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
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: equality
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“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”
— Andrea Dworkin
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: intelligence
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“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
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: equality
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“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.”
— Andrea Dworkin
Author: Andrea Dworkin
Category: freedom
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