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“The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.”

Quote by Andrea Dworkin

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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'. more

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“As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.”

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“In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.”

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Author:Catharine MacKinnon

“Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.”

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“In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.”

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Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

“In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.”

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Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

“What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.”

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Book:Are Women Human?

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“Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.”

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Book:Are Women Human?

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“So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.”

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“Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality… and extreme, grotesque immorality.”