In other words, if I disagree with you, I deny you your civil rights. Others sent me quotations from her books, as if the shock of her own words would jolt me back to reality. People think you are very hostile to men. The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives.
Men especially love murder.
In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives. As for the second quote, Catharine MacKinnon, not Andrea Dworkin, wrote those words, but the person who posted it to America On-Line, and attributed it to Dworkin didn't know that. Like Shakespeare's devil who can cite scripture to serve his purpose, Dworkin's detractors can quote just enough to her writing to put the fear of feminists in you, never enough to provide some context for what she says. That's because Dworkin's detractors don't read her books.