We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violentsee, he's jealous, he caresa woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt by how much she will take how much she will endure how suicidal she's prepared to be.
More Quotes from Andrea Dworkin:
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values. . .Andrea Dworkin
We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects but, in fact, we live in a homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men. . .
Andrea Dworkin
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
Andrea Dworkin
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.
Andrea Dworkin
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Andrea Dworkin
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Envy & Jealousy Quotes, Man QuotesBased on Keywords: suicidal
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Ronald Reagan
People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
Tim Burton
The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
Henry Cotton