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Andrea Dworkin

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."

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"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."

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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

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"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."

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"Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal."

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"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."

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"Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice."

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"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."

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"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."

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"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

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"When a man marries, it's proof he can't govern his life. He needs a governess."

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"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in."
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"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."
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"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."
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