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Andrea Dworkin Biography

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women. Her views were widely criticized by liberal feminists and others. At the same time, she maintained a dialogue with political conservatives, and wrote a topically related book, Right-Wing Women. After suffering abuse from her first husband, she was introduced to radical feminist literature, and began writing Woman Hating. Coming to New York, she became an activist on several issues and a writer, eventually publishing 10 books on feminism.

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To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

Biological, Feminist, Position, Rapeable, Social

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Ground, Liberation, Movement, Revolutionary

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Direct, Expression, Hate, Hated, Inspiring

I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the soil in which my life is rooted. It is the soil of our common life together. My life grows out of this soil. In any other soil, I would die. In whatever ways I am strong, I am strong because of the power and passion of this nurturant love.

Die, Heart, Nurturant, Passion, Soul, Strong

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Astonished, Bears, Believe, Unable, Women

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

Birth, Courage, Existential, Giving, Hero, Matches

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Commitment, Men, Violence, Women

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Bottles, Distinguish, Rapist, Seduction, Wine

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

Class, Desired, Feminist, Sex, Urgent

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

Femininity, Force, Mean, Mother, Son, Sons

There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle.

Blood, Principles, Matter, Dangerous, Absolutists

There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

Day, Earth, Jew, Minute, Night, Outsiders

The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.

Claims, Female, Men, Robs, Seed, Sex

Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.

Dangerous, Deadly, Idea, Ideas, World

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Home, Work Out, Feminist, Training, True

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

Peace, Men, Practice, Enforce, Sphere, Males

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

Feminist, Patriarchy, Radical Feminism, Rapist, Son, Under

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Men, Thinking, Doors, Individuals, Love

The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.

Aggress, Males, Men, Needs, Pornography, Safe

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, Intelligence, Outlaw, Rimbaud, Whorehouse, World

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