Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was... by Andrea Dworkin | We Heart Quotes

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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

- Andrea Dworkin

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Men Women

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

- Andrea Dworkin

Violence Men Women

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

- Andrea Dworkin

Seduction

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

- Andrea Dworkin

Women

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

- 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

Equality

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

- Andrea Dworkin

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