I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Andrea DworkinYou think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Andrea DworkinThe argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
Andrea DworkinFeminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
Andrea DworkinThe fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
Andrea Dworkin