Quote

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

Robin Morgan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
Woman
Women
Confucian
Concept
Chinese
Slave
Concepts

More quotes by Robin Morgan

Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.
Robin Morgan
Image
being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
Robin Morgan
Image
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
Robin Morgan
Image
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
Robin Morgan
Image
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Robin Morgan
Image
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan
Image
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
Robin Morgan
Image
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
Robin Morgan
Image
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
Robin Morgan
Image
Women are a colonized people.
Robin Morgan
Image
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.
Robin Morgan
Image
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Robin Morgan
Image
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
Robin Morgan
Image
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
Robin Morgan
Image
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
Robin Morgan
Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
Robin Morgan
Image
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
Image
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.
Robin Morgan
Image
We are the women men warned us about.
Robin Morgan
Image
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan