Feminist of the Day Info: Andrea Dworkin

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A radical feminist leader, Andrea Dworkin has been both acclaimed and criticized for speaking out against pornography and prostitution as possible causes for the epidemic of rape and violence against women facing society today.

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Born: September 26th, 1946

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