Robin Morgan (b.1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and 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 has been widely credited with helping to start the contemporary feminist movement in the US, and 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 is also known as the editor of Ms. Magazine.
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Don’t accept rides from strange men – and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
—Robin Morgan
Topics: Men, Conversation
Although every organized patriarchal 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.
—Robin Morgan
Topics: Religion
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.
—Robin Morgan
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?
—Robin Morgan
Topics: Living
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
—Robin Morgan
Topics: Possibilities
There’s something contagious about demanding freedom.
—Robin Morgan
Topics: Freedom
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