Robin Morgan Quotes
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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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.
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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.
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I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.
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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.
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Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.
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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.
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I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.
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Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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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.
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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.
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
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Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.
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in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.
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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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