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1946–2005 United States

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer.

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Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change.

Intercourse (1987)

Pornography is used in rape—to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.

Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000)

Women do not know how to be women exactly; men constantly fail to be men.

Intercourse (1987)

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000)

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

Our Blood (1976)

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.

Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000)

Men must make women afraid and compliant, including through beatings; women must be housebound and servile. The men, then, can attend orgies or engage in any other sexual activity.

Intercourse (1987)

I think the essence of romantic love for women is being the special one, and that's an absolutely terrible trap. If the lover treats certain other people badly, you will be treated that badly, too.

If you believe that God made women to be submissive and inferior, then there is almost nothing that feminism can say to you about your place in society.

Feminism: An Agenda (1983)

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)

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.

Male supremacy is fused into language, so that every sentence as language, is permeated by the linguistic and perceptual values developed expressly to subordinate women. Men have defined the parameters of every subject.

Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Intercourse (1987)

Intercourse is a world that moves through the sexed world of dominance and submission. It moves in descending circles, not in a straight line, and as in a vortex each spiral goes down deeper.

Intercourse (1987)

Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more—also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

Intercourse (1987)

I represent the morbid side of the women's movement. I deal with the shit, the real shit.

Feminism: An Agenda (1983)

The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)

I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrea Dworkin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.