Andrea Dworkin Quotes
No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it- instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.
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Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
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Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.
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I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.
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No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it- instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love.
