{"author":"Andrea Dworkin","author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["feminism","oppresion"],"id":861,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"I listened; I wrote; I learned. I do not know why so many women trusted me enough to speak to me, but underneath anything I write one can hear the percussive sound of their heartbeats. If one has to pick one kind of pedagogy over all others, I pick listening. It breaks down prejudices and stereotypes; it widens self-imposed limits; it takes one into another's life, her hard times and, if there is any, her joy too.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["listening"],"id":6072,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["cowardice","oppression"],"id":7913,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["faith","fall","earth "],"id":19673,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore. It doesn't matter who the individual women are. They all have the same vulnerability to rape, to battery, as children to incest. Poorer women have more vulnerability to prostitution, which is basically a form of sexual exploitation that is intolerable in an egalitarian society, which is the society we are fighting for.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["feminism","male-supremacy","sisterhood"],"id":22805,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"Now, when I talk about a resistance, I am talking about an organized political resistance. I'm not just talking about something that comes and something that goes. I'm not talking about a feeling. I'm not talking about having in your heart the way things shuold be and going through a regular day having good, decent, wonderful ideas in your heart. I'm talking about when you put your body and your mind on the line and you commit yourself to years of struggle in order to change the society in which you live. This does not mean just changing the men whom you know so that their manners will get better - although that wouldn't be bad either. It has been fifteen years. Their manners haven't gotten appreciably better, even. But that's not what a political resistance is. A political resistance goes on day and night, under cover and over ground, where people can see it and where people can't. It is passed from generation to generation. It is taught. It is encouraged. It is celebrated. It is smart. It is savvy. It is committed. And someday it will win. It will win.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["feminism"],"id":29336,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["dignity","feminism","freedom","justice","self-respect","women"],"id":37731,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["child","body","nothing "],"id":51400,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["equality","feminism","liberation","oppression","radical"],"id":64579,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"},{"text":"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. ","author":"Andrea Dworkin","tags":["women","struggle","justice "],"id":76408,"author_id":"Andrea+Dworkin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}