Robin Morgan Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Women are a colonized people.

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.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

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