"Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman."

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Andrea Dworkin

#Son Quotes #Feminist Quotes #Inevitable Quotes

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”
“Surprise is key in all art.”
“All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.”
“Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.”
“I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.”
“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”
“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”
“I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!”

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