Occupation: Lawyer Birth: October 7, 1946
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humi….
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduc….
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough..
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women'….
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color..
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gende….
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you..
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables..
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, ….
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christia….
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented an….
If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in….
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty unive….
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were ….
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male….
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent..
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated..
Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism..
If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality..
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs..
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men..