Robin Morgan Quotes
"The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Power, Women, Control, Church, Abortion, Birth control)
"There's something contagious about demanding freedom."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Freedom)
"We are the women men warned us about."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Men, Women)
"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Marriage, Men, Women)
"White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Life, Destruction, Environment, Today)
"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Women)
"Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Men, Hell)
"Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: People, Oppression)
"We're not inherently anything but human."
- Robin Morgan
"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."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Men, Lie, Rest, Sexism)
"Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Men, Women, Revolution)
"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Power, Knowledge, Act, Humility, Information, May, Tyranny)
"It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: People, Winning, Cause, Fight, Freedom)
"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."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Men, Women, Privilege, Will)
"I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Act, Class, Man, Right)
"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Time, Affection, Desire, Woman)
"Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Friendship, Love)
"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible."
- Robin Morgan
"I am an artist and a political being as well."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Artist, Being)