Andrea Dworkin quotes

" The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude. " # Oppression # Life and Living # Love

" Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. " # Feminism # Men and Women # Faith

" Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. " # Definition # Feminism # Truth

" Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. " # Dissent # Men and Women # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. " # Equality # Murder # Sex

" Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. " # Eroticism # Pornography # Class

" Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. " # Fashion # Men and Women # Women

" By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't. " # Fear # Women # Men and Women

" Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. " # Feminism # Hatred # Politicians and Politics

" Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. " # Feminism # Freedom # Crime and Criminals