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
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.
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
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.
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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.
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
I am an artist and a political being as well.
Women are a colonized people.
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.
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.