Quotes from Robin Morgan

We are the women men warned us about.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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

Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

Let it all hang out. Let it seem bitchy, catty, dykey, frustrated, crazy, Solanesque, nutty, frigid, ridiculous, bitter, embarrassing, man-hating, libelous, pure, unfair, envious, intuitive, low-down, stupid, petty, liberating. We are the women that men have warned us about.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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

on Gerda Lerner] As for stepping outside of patriarchal thought: "Being skeptical toward every known system of thought: being critical of all assumptions, ordering values and definitions . . . , developing intellectual courage, . . . the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all - that of intellectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorder the world.

So she begins to love herself, to love her own flesh, to love her own genius. She begins to deserve herself.

She is not deterred by Margaret Thatcher. She is in fact bored at having Margaret Thatcher thrown at her; she knows men will pounce upon such an example because it has been cloned in their own image and is so much an exception to the rule.

Like Margarita Chant Papandreou, president of the Women's Union of Greece, she can say, " I do want to argue that women's values, whether they are biologically imbedded or culturally instilled, are clearly more anti-war, more anti-violence, more for the preservation of life than are male values.

She thinks: I resent being different from men when men are defining that difference. She thinks: Do I resent being different from men when I and other women are defining the difference? Do I resent that difference if a singular power is not at work to enforce it, but our multiple powers are at work to explore it?

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

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

Hate generalizes, love specifies.