Andrea Dworkin Quotes

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.

I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Men are irrelevant.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

This is our historical task … To make evident that the category “woman” as well as the category “man” are political and economic categories and not eternal ones. Our aim is to suppress men as a class, not through a genocidal, but a political struggle. Once the class “man” disappears, “woman” as a class will disappear as well, for there are no slaves without masters.

We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are changing invisibly underneath our feet. I am playing catch up. Maybe we all are.

Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

Machistas are out of style.

I think if we took away that toxic masculinity then the world would be a much better place.

We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think about females in different ways.