Robin Morgan es una poeta, escritora y activista feminista estadounidense, periodista, conferenciante y ex actriz infantil. Desde principios de la década de 1960, fue miembro del movimiento feminista radical estadodunidense y una líder en el movimiento feminista internacional. Su antología de 1970 Sisterhood is Powerful ha sido reconocida por impulsar los orígenes del movimiento feminista contemporáneo en EE. UU. La obra ha sido considerada por la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York como "Uno de los 100 libros más influyentes del siglo XX".[1] Morgan ha escrito más de 20 libros de poesía, ficción y no ficción, y también es conocida como editora de la revista Ms.[2]
Durante la década de 1960, participó en los movimientos por los derechos civiles y contra la guerra de Vietnam; a fines de la década de 1960 fue miembro fundadora de organizaciones feministas radicales como New York Radical Women y W.I.T.C.H. Fundó o cofundó la Feminist Women's Health Network , Feminist Women's Health Network, la National Battered Women's Refuge Network, Media Women, the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers, la Feminist Writers' Guild, la Women's Foreign Policy Council, el National Museum of Women in the Arts, el Sisterhood Is Global Institute, GlobalSister.org y Greenstone Women's Radio Network.
la Red Nacional de Refugios para Mujeres Maltratadas, Mujeres de Medios, la Red Nacional de Centros de Crisis por Violación, el Gremio de Escritores Feministas, el Consejo de Política Exterior de Mujeres, el Museo Nacional de Mujeres Artistas, el Sisterhood Is Global Institute, GlobalSister.org y Greenstone Women's Radio Network. También fue cofundadora del Women's Media Center con la activista Gloria Steinem y la actriz y activista Jane Fonda. Wikipedia
“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.”
Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (1977). New York: Random House. ISBN 0394482271. (1978 ed, ISBN 039472612X.), p 70. (possibly also published as Going Too Far: The Personal Documents of a Feminist) ("there is no 'too far,'" id., p. 8, "Introduction: Rights of Passage")
"Lesbianism and Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions?", spring 1973, keynote address to West Coast Lesbian Feminist Conference, printed in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 178.
to a point where the capacity for belligerence is regarded as an essential ingredient of manhood and the proclivity for conciliation is thought largely a quality of women.
The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism (1989). New York: WW Norton & Co. 395 p. ISBN 0393306771. (2000 revised ed, ISBN 0743452933.)
"The Politics of Sado-Masochistic Fantasies", in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 235.
reflected even in our language—carving up "virgin territory," with strip mining often referred to as a "rape of the land" "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" (1974) in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist.
"Goodbye to All That", 1970 in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 123.
"Barbarous Rituals", in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 110.
Going Too Far, p. 187.
“We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”
Actually from 1969 leaflet by The Feminists, "Women: Do You Know the Facts About Marriage?". Its text was reprinted in the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful edited by Robin Morgan.
Misattributed
"Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" (1974) in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist.
