During her final years, Dworkin suffered fragile health, and she revealed in her last column for The Guardian that she had been weakened and nearly crippled for the past several years by severe osteoarthritis in the knees.
Under sina sista år led Dworkin av bräcklig hälsa, och hon avslöjade i sin sista kolumn i Guardian att hon under de gångna åren hade varit försvagad och nästan förlamad av svårartad knäartros.