The 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 DworkinMen know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Andrea DworkinI have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Andrea DworkinBeing stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
Andrea DworkinThe 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.
Andrea Dworkin