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Andrea Dworkin was an American writer and activist known for her work in feminist theory and activism. She focused on issues of pornography, violence against women, and the intersection of gender and politics. Her influential works include 'Intercourse' and 'Pornography: Men Possessing Women'.

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“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”

Women Feminism Radical Feminism Male Violence

Book:Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Source: Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

“The freedom of women from sex oppression either matters or it does not; it is either essential or it is not. Decide one more time.”

Women Sexism Radical Feminism

Book:Right-Wing Women

Source: Right-Wing Women

“Women don't understand self-defense the way men do—perhaps because sexual abuse destroys the self. We don't feel we have a right to kill just because we are being beaten, raped, tortured, and terrorized. We are hurt for a long time before we fight back.”

Feminism Defense Defence Self Defense Radical Feminism Self Defence

Book:Pornography: men possessing women

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

“...man's love for woman, his sexual adoration of her, his human definition of her, his delight and pleasure in her, require her negation: physical crippling and psychological lobotomy. That is the very nature of romantic love...he adores her deformity, annihilates her freedom, he will have her as sex object, even if he must destroy the bones in her feet to do it. Brutality, sadism, and oppression emerge as the substantive core of the romantic ethos.”

Feminism Radical Feminism

Book:Woman Hating

Source: Woman Hating

“All women are supposed to vilify any peer who deviates from the accepted norm of femininity, and most do. What is remarkable is not that most do, but that some do not.”

Feminism Women S Liberation Radical Feminism Second Wave Feminism

Book:Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Source: Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

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

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

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

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

About the Author

Born: September 26, 1946
Died: April 9, 2005
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 214

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Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against WomenRelated source material

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