“Freedom is not an abstraction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more of it is not enough either. Having less, being less, impoverished in freedom and rights, women then inevitably have less self-respect: less self-respect than men have and less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life. Intercourse as domination battens of that awful absence of self respect.”

— Andrea Dworkin , book Intercourse

Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7

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Feminist writer 1946–2005

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