Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes.

Feminized wimps need to be removed from our government, from our media, from our educational institutions, and replaced by real white men.... That'll be a tough job.... I don't really care how the job is done—whether the wimps all get machine-gunned and bulldozed into giant lime pits or whether their thinking is eventually straightened out by a program of prolonged trauma and privation

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.