Her relationship with her mother was strained, but Dworkin later wrote about how her mother's belief in legal birth control and legal abortion, "long before these were respectable beliefs", inspired her later activism.
Hennes förhållande till sin mor var ansträngt, men Dworkin skrev senare om hur hennes mors tro på lagliga preventivmedel och legal abort, "långt innan dessa var respektabla åsikter," inspirerade hennes senare aktivism.