Robin Morgan Quotes

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.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

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

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

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

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

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

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

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

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.