If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
Andrea DworkinTags: oppression cowardice
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.
Andrea DworkinTags: freedom prostitution feminism
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
Andrea DworkinTags: love domination dignity patriarchy
When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviours, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us.
Andrea DworkinTags: women non-violence feminism oppression liberation violence radical
A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
Andrea DworkinTags: equality feminism oppression liberation radical
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
Andrea DworkinTags: choice freedom tragedy feminism patriarchy third-wave-feminism
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice...
Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?
Tags: men women choice morality freedom feminism oppression objectification patriarchy
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.
Andrea DworkinTags: sexism patriarchy violence-against-women
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
Andrea DworkinTags: love passion sex misogyny stigma
Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.
Andrea DworkinTags: women freedom justice feminism self-respect dignity
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