Robin Morgan Quotes

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• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
• Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and…
• 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…
• Sisterhood is powerful.
• 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…
• Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
• If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
• We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self...
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
• The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
• 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…
• Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
• Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
• 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…
• 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…
• Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

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