Occupation: Writer Birth: September 26, 1946 Death: April 9, 2005
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman..
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out neverthel….
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, ….
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 ….
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contem….
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledg….
Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?.
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other..
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..
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….