Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Soul
  • Law
  • Balance

• In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Year

• Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Good
  • Day

• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Political
  • Flag

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Food
  • Knowing

• My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Give

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • World
  • Law
  • Day

• People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • People
  • Know
  • Look

• Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Time
  • Luck
  • Right Time

• We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Independent
  • Over
  • Far

• Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Single
  • Now
  • Mouth

• My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

  

  OMI
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Songs

• Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • First
  • Say
  • Season

• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Famous
  • Titanic

• The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • True
  • Culture
  • Confidence

• Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Lost

• O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Death
  • Curiosity
  • Overbusy

• It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Nice

• As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Family
  • Think

• Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • House
  • Sweet
  • God Loves

• Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.

  

  Andrea Dworkin