Read through the most famous quotes from Andrea Dworkin
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. ↗
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them. ↗
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se? ↗
#domination #love #patriarchy #love
A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. ↗
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women. ↗
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so. ↗
#feminism #freedom #patriarchy #third-wave-feminism #tragedy
I want to continue to help women. Like Dworkin their essential impulse when they see human beings living freely is to try and control or stop them – for their own good. The imperative at the heart of my writing – what must be done – comes directly from my life.
An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26 1946 – April 9 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography which Andrea Dworkin argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.
