No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

Quote by Andrea Dworkin

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For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she...

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she...

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer...

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns...

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be...

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be...

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially...

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially...

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or...

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing...

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity...

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She...

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand...

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For...

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed...

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed...

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction,...

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction,...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we...

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it...

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it...

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social...

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere...

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere...

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of...

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of...