Andrea Dworkin

"Pornography is the theory; rape is the practice."

"We must refuse the roles that have been prescribed for us."

"The body politic has always excluded women's actual bodies."

"Empathy without action is sentimentality."

"History is written by those who had power; we must write our own."

"To survive is to resist daily."

"Intellectual freedom is the foundation of all other freedoms."

"We inherit not just genes but entire systems of thought."

"Passion without direction becomes merely destructive."

"The revolution will be one of consciousness first."

"Men's freedom has always been built on women's unfreedom."

"Naming the problem is the first step toward solving it."

"We are taught to apologize for taking up space."

"Real love demands equality, not submission."

"The system was designed to keep us divided and powerless."

"Women's work is always undervalued because women are undervalued."

"Faith in humanity requires believing change is possible."

"Our bodies are not public property, regardless of what we wear."

"Creativity is an act of refusal against conformity."

"The mind is where freedom must first be claimed."

"To be whole is to be dangerous to the status quo."

"We are taught that our desires are shameful; they are human."

"Memory is political; what we remember shapes what we become."

"Despair is a luxury we cannot afford."

"The patriarchy requires our complicity; we can withdraw it."

"Truth-telling is an act of courage in a world built on lies."

"We inherit trauma, but we can also heal it."

"Solitude is where we learn who we are beneath the conditioning."

"The personal becomes political when we stop accepting injustice."

"Imagination is the first requirement of revolution."