Robin Morgan Quotes

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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.

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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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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.

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

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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.

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

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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.

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When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

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Let it all hang out. Let it seem bitchy, catty, dykey, frustrated, crazy, Solanesque, nutty, frigid, ridiculous, bitter, embarrassing, man-hating, libelous, pure, unfair, envious, intuitive, low-down, stupid, petty, liberating.

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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

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All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange as hell.

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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.

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People are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

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We are the myths. We are the Amazons, the Furies, the witches. We have never not been here...
There is something utterly familiar about us.
We have been ourselves before.

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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

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Being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

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No one appeared to wonder whether this S-M proliferation was a lesbian copy of a faggot imitation of patriarchal backlash against feminism.

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Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values — racism, militarism, capitalism — all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

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As we've frequently had to remind politicians, women were not born Democrats, Republicans, or yesterday.

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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.

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It's not that I'm against regime change. It can be good if it rids a country of a power-hungry, oil-obsessed, undemocratically elected millionaire indifferent to the security and economic needs of his own people, the rule of law and world opinion.

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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

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Life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

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A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

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A phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

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The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

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