Practice Marriage Time Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. - Andrea Dworkin
Struggle Violence Freedom Women Men Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. - Andrea Dworkin
Class Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. - Andrea Dworkin
Conviction Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. - Andrea Dworkin
Humanity Mother Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so. - Andrea Dworkin
Suffering Fact Being Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. - Andrea Dworkin
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. - Dean Inge