Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Writing Is Alchemy. Dross Becomes Gold. Experience Is Transformed. Pain Is Changed. Suffering May Become Song. The Ordinary Or Horrible Is Pushed By The Will Of The Writer Into Grace Or Redemption, A Prophetic Wail, A Screed For Justice, An Elegy Of Sadness Or Sorrow. ... There Is Always A Tension Between Experience And The Thing That Finally Carries It Forward, Bears Its Weight, Holds It In. Without That Tension, One Might As Well Write A Shopping List.

Undernourished, Intelligence Becomes Like The Bloated Belly Of A Starving Child: Swollen, Filled With Nothing The Body Can Use.

Freedom Is Not An Abstaction, Nor Is A Little Of It Enough. A Little More Is Not Enough Either. Having Less, Being Less, Empoverished In Freedom And Rights, Women Then Invariably Have Less Self-respect: Less Self-respect Than Any Human Being Needs To Live A Brave And Honest Life.

Being Stigmatied By Sex Is Being Marked By Its Meaning In A Human Life Of Loneliness And Imperfection, Where Some Pain Is Indelible.

Monroe, The Consummate Sexual Doll, Is Empowered To Act But Afraid To Act, Perhaps Because No Amount Of Acting, However Inspired,can Convince The Actor Herself That Her Ideal Female Life Is Not A Dreadful Form Of Dying.

I Dream That Love Without Tyranny Is Possible

Could Women's Liberation Ever Be A Revolutionary Movement, Not Rhetorically But On The Ground?

One Needs Either Equality Or Political And Economic Superiority.

Touch Is The Meaning Of Being Human.

Feminism Exists So That No Woman Ever Has To Face Her Abuser In Isolation, Alone.

The Creative Mind Is Intelligence In Action In The World.

The Cultural Institutions Which Embody And Enforce Those Interlocked Aberrations-for Instance, Law, Art, Religion, Nation-states, The Family, Tribe, Or Commune Based On Father-right-these Institutions Are Real And They Must Be Destroyed.