107 Quotes by Robin Morgan

The women’s movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

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 them.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, ‘God gave us fingers with which to eat.’ And we’re supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We’re being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

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

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women’s oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.

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.

Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

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.