Andrea Dworkin Quotes

Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

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

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.

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

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.