American - Critic | September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005
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.
Andrea Dworkin
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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
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Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
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Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
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Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
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Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
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Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
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My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.
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I believe couples should have separate bedrooms.
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