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
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.
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.
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.