Andrea Dworkin Quotes

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.

I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

The world is fixated on defining and redefining what is feminine. That is for every individual to decide for herself.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

I'm not representing other people. I'm representing me.

You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.