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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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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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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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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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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Mean, Men, White

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

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

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World, Changing The World

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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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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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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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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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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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Taken, What Matters, Inward

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

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Love, Funny, Humorous

Sisterhood Is Powerful "Letter to a Sister Underground" (1970)

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

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Drama, Comedy, Life Is

Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, 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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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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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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Born: January 29, 1941
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