“Can intercourse exist without the woman herself turning herself into a thing, which she must do because men cannot fuck equals and men must fuck: because one price of dominance is that one impotent in the face of equality?”

— Andrea Dworkin , book Intercourse

Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7

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Feminist writer 1946–2005

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