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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Source: Redefining Nonviolence, speech, 5 April 1975, Boston College (published in Our Blood, ch. 6, sct. 2, 1976).
-- Andrea Dworkin, (Sep 26 1946-2005), US radical feminist, civil rights activist, writer; She worked to have pornography classified as a form of sex discrimination; wrote Woman Hating, 1974.

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