“The pride comes from accomplishment. I have done what I wanted to do more than any other thing in life. I have become a writer, published two books of integrity and worth. I did not know what those two books would cost me, how very difficult it would be to write them, to survive the opposition to them.”

— Andrea Dworkin

"A Battered Wife Survives", (1978)
Letters from a War Zone: Writings 1976-1987

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