Woman Hating Quotes

“Once upon a time there was a wicked witch and her name was
Lilith
Eve
Hagar
Jezebel
Delilah
Pandora
Jahi
Tamar
and there was a wicked witch and she was also called goddess and her name was
Kali
Fatima
Artemis
Hera
Isis
Mary
Ishtar
and there was a wicked witch and she was also called queen and her name was
Bathsheba
Vashti
Cleopatra
Helen
Salome
Elizabeth
Clytemnestra
Medea
and there was a wicked witch and she was also called witch and her name was
Joan
Circe
Morgan le Fay
Tiamat
Maria Leonza
Medusa
and they had this in common: that they were feared, hated, desired, and worshiped.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“The separation of man from nature, man placing himself over and above it, is directly responsible for the current ecological situation which may lead to the extinction of many forms of life, including human life. Man has treated nature much as he has treated woman: with rape, plunder, violence.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“Women are objects, commodities, some deemed more expensive than others. But it is only by asserting one's humanness every time, in all situations, that one becomes someone as opposed to something. That, after all is the core of our struggle.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“The roles available to women and men are clearly articulated in fairy tales. The characters of each are vividly described, and so are the modes of relationship possible between them. We see that powerful women are bad, and that good women are inert. We see that men are always good, no matter what they do, or do not do.

We also have an explicit rendering of the nuclear family. In that family, a mother’s love is destructive, murderous. In that family, daughters are objects, expendable. The nuclear family, as we find it delineated in fairy tales, is a paradigm of male being-in-the-world, female evil, and female victimization. It is a crystallization of sexist culture —the nuclear structure of that culture.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“As individuals, we experience ourselves as the center of whatever social world we inhabit. We think that we are free and refuse to see that we are functions of our particular culture. That culture no longer organically reflects us, it is not our sum total, it is not the collective phenomenology of our creative possibilities—it possess and rules us, reduces us, obstructs the flow of sexual and creative energy and activity, penetrates even into what Freud called the id, gives nightmare shape to natural desire.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“Prostitution means for the woman the carnal annihilation of will and choice, but for the man it once again signifies an increase in power, pure and simple.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“RIDDLE:
Q: Why haven't women made great works of art?
A: Because they are great works of art.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“There is a misery of the body and a misery of the mind, and if the stars, whenever we looked at them, poured nectar into our mouths, and the grass became bread, we would still be sad. We live in a system that manufactures sorrow, spilling it out of its mill, the waters of sorrow, ocean, storm, and we drown down, dead, too soon.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“My own experience is that night and day are more alike than different -- in which case they couldn't possibly be opposite.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“to permit writers to use forms which violate convention just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think differently: not to think about different things, but to think in different ways.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“The discovery is, of course, that “man” and “woman” are fictions, caricatures, cultural constructs. As models they are reductive, totalitarian, inappropriate to human
becoming. As roles they are static, demeaning to the female, dead-ended for male and female both.
The conclusion is inescapable: we are, clearly, a multisexed species which has its sexuality spread along a vast continuum where the elements called male and female are not discrete.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“there is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for the writer? freedom of invention, freedom to tell the truth, in all its particulars, freedom to imagine new structures.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“...man's love for woman, his sexual adoration of her, his human definition of her, his delight and pleasure in her, require her negation: physical crippling and psychological lobotomy. That is the very nature of romantic love...he adores her deformity, annihilates her freedom, he will have her as sex object, even if he must destroy the bones in her feet to do it. Brutality, sadism, and oppression emerge as the substantive core of the romantic ethos.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“There have also been, always, individual feminists- women who violated the strictures of the female role, who challenged male supremacy, who fought for the right to work, or sexual freedom, or release from the bondage of the marriage contract. Those individuals were often eloquent when they spoke of the oppression the suffered as women in their own lives, but other women, properly trained to their roles, did not listen.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“Our study of pornography, our living of life, tells us that the myth of feminine evil lived out so resolutely by the Christians of the Dark Ages, is alive and well, here and now. Our study of pornography, our living of life, tells us that though the witches are dead, burned alive at the stake, the belief in female evil is not, the hatred of female carnality is not. The Church has not changed its premises; the culture has not refuted those premises. It is left to us, the inheritors of that myth, to destroy it and the institutions based on it.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“You do not teach someone to count only up to eight. You do not say nine and ten and beyond do not exist. You give people everything or they are not able to count at all. There is a real revolution or none at all.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“Instructions Before Reading Chapter
1. Find a piece of cloth 10 feet long and 2 inches wide
2. Find a pair of children’s shoes
3. Bend all toes except the big one under and into the sole of the foot. Wrap the cloth around these toes and then around the heel. Bring the heel and toes as close together as possible. Wrap the full length of the cloth as tightly as possible
4. Squeeze foot into children’s shoes
5. Walk
6. Imagine that you are 5 years old
7. Imagine being like this for the rest of your life”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“Our goals are simple enough to understand: we want to humanize the planet, to break down the national structures which separate us as people, the corporate structures which separate us into distinct classes, the racist structures which separate us according to skin color; to conserve air, water, life in its many forms; to create communities which are more than habitable—communities in which people are free, in which people have what they need, in which groups of people do not accumulate power, or money, or goods, through the exploitation of other people.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“That women have not been exterminated, and will not be (at least until the technology of creating life in the laboratory is perfected) can be attributed to our presumed ability to bear children and, more importantly no doubt, to the relative truth that men prefer to fuck cunts who are nominally alive. I except here necrophiliacs, those pure and unsullied princes, whose story begins where ours ends.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“In that family, a
mother’s love is destructive, murderous. In that family, daughters are
objects, expendable. The nuclear family, as we find it delineated in fairy
tales, is a paradigm of male being-in-the-world, female evil, and female
victimization. It is a crystallization of sexist culture —the nuclear structure
of that culture.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“standard forms are imposed in dress, behavior,
sexual relation, punctuation. standard form s are imposed on consciousness and behavior—on knowing and
expressing— so that we will not presume freedom , so
that freedom will appear —in all its particulars — impossible and unworkable, so that we will not know what
telling the truth is, so that we will not feel compelled
to tell it, so that we will spend our time and our holy
human energy telling the necessary lies.
standard forms are sometimes called conventions,
conventions are mightier than armies, police, and prisons. each citizen becomes the enforcer, the doorkeeper,
an instrument o f the Law, an unfeeling guard punching his fellow man hard in the belly.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“I want writers to write books as actions. I
want writers to write books that can make a difference
in how, and even why, people live. I want writers to
write books that are worth being jailed for, worth
fighting for, and should it come to that in this country,
worth dying for.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating