"How does it happen that the male child whose sense of life is so vivid that he imparts humanity to sun and stone changes into the adult male who cannot grant or even imagine the common humanity of women?"

--Andrea Dworkin

"Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more -- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self knowledge, and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth."

--Andrea Dworkin

"There is no imagination in fetishlike sexual conformity."

--Andrea Dworkin

"One can bear the truth if it carries one toward love."

--Andrea Dworkin