Andrea Dworkin Quotes

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.