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“I am one of those serious women.”

Book:Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

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Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

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Andrea Dworkin

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

“It's like I tell people at my stand-up shows: by making me a bitch, you have given me my freedom, the freedom to say and do things I couldn't do if I was "a nice girl" with some sort of stupid, goody-two-shoes image to keep up. Things that require courage. Things that require balls. Things that need to be done. By making me a bitch, you have freed me from the trite, sexist, bourgeois prison of "likeability." Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people.”

Feminism

Book:Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

Source: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

“Women are raising children, picking up socks, and making sure you feel like a man by supporting you when you need it and looking sexy (but not trying too hard, because that would be pathetic). We're being independent and bad bitches while wearing fucking lipstick and heels so as not to offend your delicate aesthetic sensibility, yet even just the word "feminist" pisses you off. How dare we.”

Feminism

Book:Sex Object: A Memoir

Source: Sex Object: A Memoir

“Because even subversive sarcasm adds a cool-girl nonchalance, an updated, sharper version of the expectation that women be forever pleasant, even as we're eating shit.”

Feminism

Book:Sex Object: A Memoir

Source: Sex Object: A Memoir