Quote by Andrea Dworkin
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that i

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. – Andrea Dworkin

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. – Andrea Dworkin

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Marriage
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You think intercourse is a private act its not, its a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. – Andrea Dworkin

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Women
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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. – Andrea Dworkin

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Dissent
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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. – Georges Bernanos

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A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. – Phil Donahue

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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? – Valerie Bertinelli

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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