Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

Quote by Andrea Dworkin

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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...

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...

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to...

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to...

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent...

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent...

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...

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...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for...

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...

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead...

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead...

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are...

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to...

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to...

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or...

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or...

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,...

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how...

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how...