“Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?”

— Andrea Dworkin, book Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

Source: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000), p. 248.

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