Selin

“For me, being a lesbian means three things—

First, it means that I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the soil in which my life is rooted. It is the soil of our common life together. My life grows out of this soil. In any other soil, I would die. In whatever ways I am strong, I am strong because of the power and passion of this nurturant love.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

“What I've learned is that women suffer from terrible shame and the shame comes from having been complicit in abuse because one wants to live.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant

“Instructions Before Reading Chapter
1. Find a piece of cloth 10 feet long and 2 inches wide
2. Find a pair of children’s shoes
3. Bend all toes except the big one under and into the sole of the foot. Wrap the cloth around these toes and then around the heel. Bring the heel and toes as close together as possible. Wrap the full length of the cloth as tightly as possible
4. Squeeze foot into children’s shoes
5. Walk
6. Imagine that you are 5 years old
7. Imagine being like this for the rest of your life”
― Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

“I love the literature that these men created; but I will not live my life as if they are real and I am not. Nor will I tolerate the continuing assumption that they know more about women than we know about ourselves.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin