Occupation: Writer Birth: September 26, 1946 Death: April 9, 2005
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy gr….
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resour….
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized….
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it..
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible..
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role..
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography..
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do ….
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to requi….
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are..
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 ….
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genufl….
The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world..
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man..
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of….
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.
I dream that love without tyranny is possible.
The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men..
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make uni….
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps..
In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice..