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Famous Robin Morgan Quotes
“All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.”
“Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.”
“No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.”
“Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.”
“Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.”
“Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.”
“For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.”
“Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.”
“being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.”
“The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.”
“The egg cackles and lays the chicken.”
“The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.”
“... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.”
“Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.”
“Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
“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 strange.”