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Robin Morgan is an influential American poet born on January 29, 1941. Her poetry is known for its profound social consciousness and feminist perspective, which has had a significant impact on contemporary poetry.

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Famous Robin Morgan Quotes

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

Firsts Silence Oppression Silence Is Spills Shattering

Book:The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism

Source: The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism

“The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.”

Believe Has Beens Conditions Aspect Oppression Oppressed Vicious Blinded

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.”

Known Models Species Oppression Sexism

Book:The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

Source: The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

“Women are a colonized people.”

People Oppression Colonization Male Dominance

Author:Robin Morgan

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

People Groups Commit Oppression Characteristics Latter Threatening

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.”

Source: The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism

About the Author

Born: January 29, 1941
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 66

Books & Sources

Saturday's Child: A MemoirRelated source material

The Word of a Woman: Feminist DispatchesRelated source material

Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movementRelated source material

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a FeministRelated source material

The Demon Lover: The Roots of TerrorismRelated source material

Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement AnthologyRelated source material

The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four DimensionsRelated source material

Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988Related source material

Lady of the Beasts: PoemsRelated source material

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