Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
More Quotes from Andrea Dworkin:
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus. . .Andrea Dworkin
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.
Andrea Dworkin
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of 'I am afraid,' we say, 'I don't want to,' or 'I don't know how,' or 'I can't.'
Andrea Dworkin
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
Andrea Dworkin
Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired, can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.
Andrea Dworkin
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.
Andrea Dworkin
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Facts Quotes, Reality QuotesEveryting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant
I am proud that we worked so hard to improve seniors' lives.
Mike Rogers
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
Beatrice Potter Webb