Andrea Dworkin

"Penetrating to the heart of any matter calls for the unremitting, passionate, undivided concentration of a free mind."

"Woman's freedom is the freedom to become who you truly are."

"I believe that desperation is the raw material of drastic change."

"The great challenge to the antiwar movement is that it must not only condemn war, but also prevent it."

"We live as we dream—alone."

"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it."

"Prostitution is the cornerstone of the sexual abuse industry."

"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape."

"The essential thing that must be done is to move beyond the idea that government power and market power are separate."

"The fact that you are not dead yet is proof that you can do more."

"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness."

"Women are not born; they are made."

"Real freedom is the ability to be a human being."

"Intellectual freedom requires political freedom."

"In life, we all make our own choices; but we cannot choose the consequences of those choices."

"The most important thing is to be a good human being."

"Art is a political act."

"Your life is your life—you are not what you were."

"To care is to risk vulnerability."

"One cannot live fully if one approaches life with the idea that there is no point."

"The truth is like a lion; you do not have to defend it."

"We are a civilization that has lost its ability to mourn."

"Revolution is a commitment to an idea."

"What a woman must do is nothing."

"Being human is a complicated thing."

"Fear and apathy are the enemies of change."

"Work is a form of freedom."

"The capacity to understand women's experiences is necessary to understand human experience."

"Despair is the disease of slavery."

"To remember is to resist."