Andrea Rita Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin in 1988.

Andrea Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was a leading feminist.

Julie Bindel argued in 2019 that feminists should embrace Dworkin.

Dworkin regarded gender as a social or cultural construct. This was made clear in her work. If she was still alive she would like be a trans ally. Thus while a radical feminist Dworkin would not be a TERF.

Quotes

"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice."

"For men I suspect that this transformation begins in the place they most dread—that is, in a limp penis. I think that men will have to give up their precious erections and begin to make love as women do together."

"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 discovery 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."

See Also

• Feminist quotes