Robin Morgan Quotes

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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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  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Ubuntu

  Robin Morgan (2016). “Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Hate, Men, Radical Feminism

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.171, Open Road Media

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

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  Men, Feminist, Misandry

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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

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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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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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  Running, Giving Up, Men

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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

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  Peace, Knowledge, Humility

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.121, Open Road Media

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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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  Believe, Oppression, Aspect

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.25, Open Road Media

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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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  Girl, Ethnicity, Feminism

  "International Women's Day: In defence of feminist dissent". www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2014.

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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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  People, Problem, Wells

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

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  Inspiring, Bad Ass, Justice

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

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

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  Doe, Movement

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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

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  Silence, Firsts, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2001). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, Washington Square Press

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• 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.

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  Lying, Men, Groups

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.116, Open Road Media

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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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  White, Environmental, Today

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.114, Open Road Media

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

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  Hate, Hatred, Movement

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• We are the women men warned us about.

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  Inspiring, Men

  Robin Morgan (2016). “Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology”, p.1122, Open Road Media

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• When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

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  People, Catholic, Religion

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

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  World, Changing The World

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

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  Oppression, Sexism, Species

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.232, Open Road Media

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

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  Racism, Perfect, Combination

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.62, Open Road Media

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

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  Feminism, Culture, World

  Robin Morgan (2016). “Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

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  Firsts, Language, Clarity

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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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  Inspiring, Feminist, Quality

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.53, Open Road Media

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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 ... 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?

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  Self, World, Splits

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