Robin Morgan Quotes

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Sisterhood is powerful.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

We are the women men warned us about.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

Women are a colonized people.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.