Though there was ultimately an almost complete rift between them, she later wrote admiringly about her mother’s “Herculean strength in the face of pain, sickness, incapacitation, and the unknown.” Intellectually precocious and wildly unconventional in her behavior, Andrea had a love-hate relationship with her mother, whom she adored but by whom she felt repudiated. Nevertheless, she lived until 1991, when she died, aged seventy-six. The move, which displeased her, was necessitated by the chronic ill-health of Andrea’s mother, Sylvia, the child of immigrant parents from Hungary, who suffered from a heart disease that resulted from a bout of rheumatic fever contracted in childhood, and who therefore spent frequent periods in hospital or bed-ridden at home.
Cherry Hill, which was virtually all-white and, in Dworkin’s view, intellectually arid. The normal pleasures of childhood street play and friendships which she enjoyed in her first-and what she called her “true”-home in a row of brick houses were interrupted when she was ten years old, with the family’s move to Delaware City, a.k.a. Andrea Rita Dworkin, who alleged that “I used everything I know-my life-to show what must be shown, so that it can be faced,” was born on September 26, 1946, in Camden, New Jersey, which she described as a “wild, hard, corrupt city,” but one in which the schools were racially and ethnically mixed.
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