No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it-instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love. (Andrea Dworkin)

No one deserves brutality because of what they are, their condition of birth, including being born female; and the women in this book are not asking for it-instead they are risking as much as any man risks to live, to love.

Andrea Dworkin

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