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
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.
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.
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
I am an artist and a political being as well.
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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.
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.