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Robin Morganis an American poet, writer, 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.
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About the Robin Morgan
Robin Morganis an American poet, writer, 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 was cited by the New York Public Library as “One of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century.”. She has written more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and was editor of Ms. magazine.
During the 1960s, she participated in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements; in the late 1960s, she was a founding member of radical feminist organizations such as New York Radical Women and W.I.T.C.H. She founded or co-founded the Feminist Women’s Health Network, the National Battered Women’s Refuge Network, Media Women, the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers, the Feminist Writers’ Guild, the Women’s Foreign Policy Council, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, GlobalSister.org, and Greenstone Women’s Radio Network. She also co-founded the Women’s Media Center with activist Gloria Steinem and actor/activist Jane Fonda. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC’s 100 Women.
20 Quotes by Robin Morgan
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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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We are the women men warned us about.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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 MorganAmerican feminist writer
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We’re not inherently anything but human.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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 MorganAmerican feminist writer
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Sexism is not the fault of women – kill your fathers, not your mothers.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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There’s something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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Don’t accept rides from strange men – and remember that all men are strange as hell.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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.
Robin MorganAmerican feminist writer
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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 MorganAmerican feminist writer