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Andrea Dworkin Quotes
Page 2 of 2Andrea Dworkin
September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005
Nationality: American
Category: Critic
Subcategory: American Critic
|  Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. | | While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. | | Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free. | | The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. | | "Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. | | 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. | | Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. | | Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. | | Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. | | Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. |
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