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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it.

Andrea Dworkin

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I fucked for food and shelter and whatever cash I needed.

Contemporary Authors - an autobiographical essay.

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If one's sexual experience has always and without exception been based on dominance - not only overt acts but also metaphysical and ontological assumptions - how can one read this book? The end of male dominance would mean - in the understanding of such a man - the end of sex. If one has eroticized a differential in power that allows for force as a natural and inevitable part of intercourse, how could one understand that this book does not say that all men are rapists or that all intercourse is rape? Equality in the realm of sex is an antisexual idea if sex requires domination in order to register as sensation. As sad as I am to say it, the limits of the old Adam - and the material power he still has, especially in publishing and media - have set limits on the public discourse (by both men and women) about this book.

Interview with British novelist Michael Moorcock - 1995 Also in a new preface to the tenth-anniversary edition of 'Intercourse' - 1997.

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I was homeless, poor, sexually traumatized, I learned to trade sex for money. I spent a lot of years out on the street, living hand to mouth.

A letter written in reply to the author John Irving, published in The New York Times Book Review May 3 - 1992.

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Sitting with Ricki, talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women's movement stronger and better; that I'd give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to be honor-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant.

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The American Civil Liberties Union claims to protect rights, political dissenters, and the vitality of political and creative discourse. The organization, in my view, is exceptionally corrupt, a handmaiden of the pornographers, the Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan. Only the pornographers give them lots of money. The Nazis and the Klan they help on principle. It's their form of charity work. I didn't understand this in 1981. I thought something was wrong but I wasn't exactly sure what. I wrote this piece to try to raise a real debate about the values and tactics of the ACLU. Forget it, folks. The ACLU is immune to criticism because virtually none gets published - none on the Left. I couldn't get this piece published but I did get some mean - even handwritten - letters from left, progressive, and libertarian editors expressing their disgust with my "contempt'' for free speech. Speech is what I do; it ain't free; it costs a lot. This piece has never been published before.

Letters from a War Zone - WRITINGS 1976-1989 - Part IV The New Terrorism. The ACLU: Bait and Switch - 1981.

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With pornography, a woman can still be sold after the beatings, the rapes, the pain, the humiliation, have killed her. I write for her, in behalf of her, I try to intervene before she dies. I know her. I have come close to being her.

A letter written in reply to the author John Irving, published in The New York Times Book Review May 3 - 1992.

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The doctor who knows me best says that osteoarthritis begins long before it cripples - in my case, possibly from homelessness, or sexual abuse, or beatings on my legs, or my weight. John, my partner, blames Scapegoat, a study of Jewish identity and women's liberation that took me nine years to write. It is, he says, the book that stole my health. I blame the drug-rape that I experienced in 1999 in Paris.

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''Women's fashion'' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

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I often lived the life of a fugitive, except that it was the more desperate life of a battered woman who had run away for the last time, whatever the outcome.

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