Andrea Dworkin
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"Andrea Rita Dworkin" was an American Radical feminism/radical feminist and writer best known for her Feminist views on pornography#Anti-pornography feminism/criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.

An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981) and Intercourse (book)/Intercourse (1987), which remain her two most widely known books.

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Men know everything - all of them- all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

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Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

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You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

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The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

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