Andrea Dworkin Quotes

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

No one knows what women want!

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

There were a lot of different things [in The Women's Room ]. I don't really want to summarize it in this way. It's about a woman's awakening, a woman who came of age in the '50s and is a teenager - actually, she's a little bit older - in the '60s and part of the women's movement and how she ends up there.

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

A woman should be an illusion.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.