Robin Morgan Quotes

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.

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.

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

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

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

I am an artist and a political being as well.

A phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

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.

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

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

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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

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

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

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

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

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

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

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

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

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully
wild, generous, drastic
in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances
that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Women are a colonized people.

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.

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

Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.

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

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

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.

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.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

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

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

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

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

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

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.

Sisterhood is powerful.

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.

We are the women men warned us about.

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

Hate generalises, love specifies

A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom ... Goodbye to all that.