Robin Morgan Quotes

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Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

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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.

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Mother, in ways neither of us can ever understand,
I have come home.

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May we comprehend that we cannot be stopped.
May I learn how to survive until my part is finished.
May I realize that I
am a
monster. I am
a
monster.
I am a monster.
And I am proud.

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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

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'Raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

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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.

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I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.'

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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

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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.

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I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

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Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

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Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

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Guilt politics... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

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In the United States... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

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An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

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Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

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Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations [...], on nonhuman creatures [...], and on the planet itself [...].

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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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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.

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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.

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If we can open ourselves to ourselves and each other, as women, only then can we begin to fight for and create, in fact reclaim, not "Lesbian Nation" or "Amazon Nation"—let alone some false state of equality—but a real Feminist Revolution, a proud gynocratic world that runs on the power of women. Not in the male sense of power, but in the sense of a power plant—producing energy. And to each, that longing for, that right to, a great love filled in reality, for all women, and children and men and animals and trees and water and all life, an exquisite diversity in unity. That world breathed and exulted on this planet some twelve thousand years ago, before the patriarchy arose to crush it.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom...

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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.

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Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

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Contemporary feminism is here to stay.... We ain't goin' backward, crazy, under, or away.

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