Andrea Dworkin

Feminist Theorist, Writer American 1946 – 2005

Radical feminist theorist on pornography and sexual violence.

382 quotes

"Money is a tool, not a goal."
Money
"Health requires balance."
Health
"Adventure awaits the brave."
Adventure
"Imagination creates reality."
Imagination
"History is our teacher."
History
"Philosophy illuminates the path."
Philosophy
"Literature speaks to the soul."
Literature
"Politics is everyone's responsibility."
Politics
"War is barbarism."
War
"Motivation is the key to success."
Motivation
"Inspiration is the spark of greatness."
Inspiration
"Men often act as though their thinking was done by their organs instead of their brains."
Philosophy
"The point is to make a living, to survive, and to do it with dignity."
Work
"Intercourse remains a means through which male power is expressed and maintained."
Power
"Women have been taught that their natural state is inferiority."
Justice
"Seduction is the mass consent to the reality of male power over women."
Politics
"We are not simply bodies; we are political beings."
Politics
"Love has been weaponized against women as a tool of compliance."
Love
"The woman who survives intact and whole is revolutionary."
Strength
"Poverty is violence inflicted on the body."
Justice
"Literature that ignores the real lives of women is incomplete."
Literature
"Language shapes reality; naming abuse is the first act of resistance."
Truth
"Art without conscience is merely decoration."
Art
"We must imagine freedom before we can create it."
Freedom
"Resistance requires seeing the world as it actually is, not as we wish it to be."
Courage
"Matriarchal values have been systematically erased from history."
History
"The personal struggle against exploitation is fundamentally political."
Politics
"Silence makes us complicit in our own oppression."
Freedom
"Women's anger is justified and necessary."
Courage
"To be a woman is to be subordinate unless we change the system."
Justice