In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

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.