I think that feminists should remember that while we often don’t take ourselves very seriously, the men around us do take us seriously. I think that the way that we can honor these women who were executed, for crimes that they may or may not have committed…is to commit every crime for which they were executed, crimes against male supremacy, crimes against the right to rape, crimes against male ownership of women, crimes against the male monopoly of public space and public discourse. We have to stop men from hurting women in everyday life, in ordinary life, in the home, in the bed, in the street, and in the engineering school….What I am saying is that everyone of us has the responsibility to be the woman that Marc Lepine wanted to murder. We need to live that with real honor, with courage. We need to put fear aside. We need to endure. We need to create. We need to resist.
-Andrea Dworkin, speech on the one-year anniversary of the Montreal Massacre