“Money speaks, but it speaks in a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.”

— Andrea Dworkin

Source: Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979), p. 20.

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Feminist writer 1946–2005

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