Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan
Robin Morganis an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful has been widely credited with helping to start the contemporary feminist movement in the US, and was cited by the New York Public Library as "One of the 100 Most Influential Books of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth3 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
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.
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.
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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.
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.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.