Famous quotes by Critics

"No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Books and harlots have their quarrels in public"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"All disgust is originally disgust at touching"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"The beggar wears all colors fearing none"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing"

Charles Lamb, Critic

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