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Andrea Dworkin Quotes
«Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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annihilation, bodily, celebration, celebrations, defined, female, fulfill, identity, masculinity, mythic, pornography, redeem, romantic, romantic love, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, submit, The Celebration, The Sacrifice, willingness
«For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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«Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.»
«In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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aggression, characteristic, conception, contingent, contingent on, criteria, identity, intensely, locate, located, locates, locating, masculinity, norm, norms, notion, phallic, phallus, possessor, possessors, recognized, rigidly, sexuality
«Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.»
«Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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abduction, capture, defined, developed, extend, institution, originally, ownership, rape, taking possession
«Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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commonality, human flesh, inches, in common, One Piece, penis, penises, renounce, sensate, so as to
«Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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admiration, enforce, genuflection, heroic, honoring, masculinity, outlawed, outlawing, outlaws, police, proven, recognition, rewarded, sphere, standards, The Outlaw, The Practice, violate, virtually