Quotes by Dworkin, Andrea

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social f >>

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. >>

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, or >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invent >>

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, >>

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recr >>

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea