Robin Morgan
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.Collection: Life
people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Struggle
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortionCollection: Abortion
Sisterhood is powerful.Collection: Sister
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.Collection: Mother
... 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.Collection: Book
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.Collection: Art
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.Collection: Life
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.Collection: Politics
being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.Collection: Choices
Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Believe
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Masquerade
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?Collection: Mean
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.Collection: Breathing
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.Collection: Weather
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.Collection: Energy
in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Tragedy
Women are a colonized people.Collection: People
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.Collection: Eye
The egg cackles and lays the chicken.Collection: Women
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.Collection: Guilt