Robin Morgan Quotes - Page 2

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

We are the women men warned us about.

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

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

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

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

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

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

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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.

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.

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.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

Sisterhood is powerful.

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.

... 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.

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

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

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

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

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

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

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.