“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.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes–love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself–and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others–should we call it “joy”?”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“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 mostof 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.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
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“No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sex
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“Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Money
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“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Language
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“Women’s fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.”
Andrea Dworkin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fashion
