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List of Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 128 inspiring quotes by Andrea Dworkin.

About Andrea Dworkin

  • Born: September 26, 1946
  • Died: April 9, 2005
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Writing is alchemy. dross becomes gold. experience is transformed. pain is changed. suffering may become song. the ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... there is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.
    Song Pain Writing
    Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
    Children Intelligent Intelligence
    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.
    Rights Self Brave
    Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
    Sex Pain Loneliness
    Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.
    Acting Dying Dolls
    I dream that love without tyranny is possible
    Dream Tyranny
    Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
    Movement Revolutionary Liberation
    One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.
    Political Needs Economic
    Touch is the meaning of being human.
    Being Human Humans
    Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.
    Feminism Faces Isolation
    The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.
    Creative Mind World
    The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.
    Art Father Real
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