Robin Morgan

“I am an artist and a political being as well.”

“Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

“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.”

“There's something contagious about demanding freedom.”

“The young women waking up to feminism now already wake up to more consciousness than my generation had. Even just simple things like equal pay - before you went, in my generation, and asked for a raise, you went through nausea and your palms sweating.”

“We're not inherently anything but human.”

“Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.”

“Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.”

“We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.”

“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.”

“Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.”

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

“Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.'”

“She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He tasted this river his own eyes had rained."It tastes of salt!" he exclaimed. "It tastes like the sea!""Mine too!" she laughed through her own tears, and he touched and tasted hers as well. "It's as if humans kept a sign of the mother sea in ourselves, a secret token of grief or gladness.”

“White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.”

“The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.”

“Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.”

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

“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.”

“We are the women men warned us about.”