Robin Morgan Quotes - Page 2

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• Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

  Robin Morgan

  Firsts, Language, Clarity

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• 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.

  Robin Morgan

  Goodbye, Men, Capitalist Economy

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.37, Open Road Media

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

  Robin Morgan

  Drama, Comedy, Life Is

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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• Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

  Robin Morgan

  Ordinary, Ordinariness

  Robin Morgan (2015). “Lady of the Beasts: Poems”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• We are the women men warned us about.

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  Inspiring, Men

  Robin Morgan (2016). “Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology”, p.1122, Open Road Media

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• There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Contagious

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Dirty, Hands

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Robin Morgan

  Fear, Hate, Evil

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• 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

  Self, World, Splits

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

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  Death, Matter, Surprise

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• Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

  Robin Morgan

  Friendship, Powerful, Mutual Love

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2011

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• 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.

  Robin Morgan

  Life, Thinking, Alive

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988”, p.67, Open Road Media

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

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  Women, Chinese, Slave

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Change, People, Profound

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.367, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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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 Morgan

  Abortion, Catholic, Church

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• Sisterhood is powerful.

  Robin Morgan

  Sister, Powerful, Sibling

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Mother, Children, Mean

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

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  Women, Eggs, Chickens

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.368, Open Road Media

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• ... 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.

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  Book, Self, Tears

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.57, Open Road Media

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

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  Art, Perfect, Form

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.83, Open Road Media

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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.

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  People, Groups, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.38, Open Road Media

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

  Robin Morgan

  Life, Self, Drastic

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

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  Politics, Realizing, Has Beens

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.189, Open Road Media

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

  Robin Morgan

  Choices, Causes, Alarms

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