Robin Morgan
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.Collection: Marriage
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.Collection: Age
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.Collection: Knowledge
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.Collection: Friendship
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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.
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
We are the women men warned us about.
Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
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.
I am an artist and a political being as well.
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.
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.
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.
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
We're not inherently anything but human.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.'
The young women waking up to feminism now already wake up to more consciousness than my generation had. Even just simple things like equal pay - before you went, in my generation, and asked for a raise, you went through nausea and your palms sweating.
Feminism is experiential; it's comparing notes. And when those stories get told, and you realize it's not just you - it's bigger - there's just a huge sigh of relief. Otherwise, you think you're crazy.
We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Hate
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothersCollection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Believe
When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.Collection: People
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.Collection: Mean
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.Collection: World
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.Collection: Doe
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.Collection: Silence
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.Collection: Love
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.Collection: Inspiring
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.Collection: Ordinary
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.Collection: Taken
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: People
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.Collection: Drama
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.Collection: Oppression
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.Collection: Racism
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.Collection: Feminism
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.Collection: Goodbye
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.Collection: Firsts
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.Collection: Inspiring
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.Collection: Book
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.Collection: Fear
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?Collection: Self