No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise. Robin Morgan More Quotes by Robin Morgan More Quotes From Robin Morgan ... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand. Robin Morgan book hands dirty Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. Robin Morgan mutual-love powerful friendship Sisterhood is powerful. Robin Morgan sister sibling powerful 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. Robin Morgan white yellow men Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere. Robin Morgan inward what-matters taken A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that. Robin Morgan capitalist-economy goodbye men Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. Robin Morgan humorous love funny Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers. Robin Morgan mother mean children Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are? Robin Morgan splits self world I am an artist and a political being as well. Robin Morgan wells political artist Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will. Robin Morgan changing-the-world world There's something contagious about demanding freedom. Robin Morgan contagious freedom 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 also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women. Robin Morgan hate evil fear The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. Robin Morgan sexism species oppression 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. Robin Morgan alive life thinking For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. Robin Morgan breathing poetry way If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity. Robin Morgan feminist quality inspiring raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'? Robin Morgan graduates ceilings mean Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other. Robin Morgan addiction crisis powerful I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight. Robin Morgan bisexual gay believe
