Quotes by Robin Morgan

• Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.
• The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
• There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
• We are the women men warned us about.
• We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
• White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
• Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
• Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
• We're not inherently anything but human.
• 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 thing as men's liberation groups.
• 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.
• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
• It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
• 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 no one gives up willingly or easily.
• I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
• I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
• Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
• Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
• I am an artist and a political being as well.