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Andrea Dworkin on Women

1946–2005 United States

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8 quotes

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

Intercourse (1987)

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)

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)

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.

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

Feminism: An Agenda (1983)

Attribution

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