Andrea Dworkin

"Imagination is where we rehearse the freedoms we have not yet achieved."

"Justice requires naming evil, not accommodating it."

"Women writers and thinkers are threats to systems of male dominance."

"Patience with injustice is patience with harm; it is not a virtue."

"The liberation of women is bound to the liberation of all oppressed people."

"Literature is where women can imagine and articulate their own truth."

"Male sexuality, as constructed, is predicated on dominance and objectification."

"Women's anger is justified; it is the appropriate response to injustice."

"The work of liberation is never finished; it requires constant vigilance."

"Desire itself has been shaped by the conditions of women's subordination."

"True equality means women having power over their own lives and bodies."

"The institutions that claim to protect women often protect male interests."

"Women's friendships are subversive when they are based on mutual truth."

"Honesty about women's actual conditions is rejected as pessimism by the powerful."

"Real feminism is not about inclusion in patriarchy; it is about dismantling it."

"The body is the site where political power is literally written on women."

"Resistance begins with seeing clearly what has been hidden from view."

"Women's liberation is incompatible with capitalism, racism, and imperialism."

"The silencing of dissent is how all oppressive systems maintain themselves."

"Intellectual integrity means following truth even when it is dangerous."

"Women's survival requires solidarity, not competition for male approval."

"The documentation of women's lives and experiences is an act of resistance."

"Love between women is radical because it exists outside male-defined sexuality."

"Greatness in women has always been achieved despite, not because of, patriarchy."

"The promise that women's freedom will come someday is a lie that perpetuates harm."

"Naming one's oppressor is the first act of liberation."

"Women's voices, when they speak truth, are weapons against injustice."

"The world will never hand women freedom; we must take it."

"Understanding the mechanisms of oppression is understanding how to resist."

"Women are not born to serve; they are born to live for themselves."