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Vote: | A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. |
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Vote: | 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 most of 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." |
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Vote: | Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. |
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Vote: | Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free. |
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Vote: | Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | "Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. |
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Andrea Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer. She was best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued led to rape and other forms of violence against women.
Her life and work
Dworkin was born in Camden, New Jersey. Her father was a schoolteacher and dedicated socialist whom she credited with inspiring her passion for social justice. Though she described her Jewish household as being in many ways dominated by the memory of the Holocaust, she had a generally happy and normal childhood until the age of 9, when she was molested in a movie theater. In 1965, while a student at Bennington College, she was arrested during an anti-Vietnam War protest at the United States Mission to the United Nations, and sent to the New York Women's House of Detention, where she was sexually assaulted by two male doctors. Her testimony of the experience was reported internationally and led to the prison's closure.
After graduating, she moved to Amsterdam and married a Dutch anarchist, who physically abused her during the course of a five-year marriage. After she left him, she survived in the city as a prostitute, living in near-destitute circumstances. At age 27, she produced her first book, Woman Hating.
Over the course of her life, Dworkin authored numerous books, articles and speeches, in which she was highly critical of pornography and prostitution. However, she also used the explicit language and imagery of pornography in many of her works. American publisher Adam Parfrey, of Feral House Books stated in his article, "The Devil and Andrea Dworkin" that her novel, Mercy, "remains the hardest porn [he had] ever been exposed to." She married John Stoltenberg in 1998; both spouses identified as gay. Stoltenberg is founder of Men Against Pornography and the author of Refusing to be a Man.
Dworkin died the morning of April 9, 2005, in her home in Washington, D.C. She was 58. The cause of death has not been disclosed. She had been suffering from bone disease for several years. (http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1468336,00.html)
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