To become the object, she takes herself and transforms herself into a thing: all freedoms are diminished and she is caged, even in the cage docile, s… - 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.

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

The pornographers actually use our bodies as their language. We are their speech. . . . Protecting what they 'say' means protecting what they do to us, how they do it. It means protecting their sadism on our bodies, because that is how they write: not like a writer at all; like a torturer.