Quotes for All
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. … There is always a tension between experience and the … Read more
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. Andrea Dworkin
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. Andrea Dworkin
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed. Andrea Dworkin
Feminist art may… though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme… should we call it ‘joy’? Andrea Dworkin
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. Andrea Dworkin
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman. Andrea Dworkin
There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle. Andrea Dworkin
I love books the way I love nature. … I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books … It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body … Read more
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so. Andrea Dworkin