Robin Morgan Quotes

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women.

I've been a female activist since the time I was 13 years old.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I am extraordinarily passionate about is furthering women's rights. I think it's something that's incredibly important, not just for girls everywhere but also boys to get involved in.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization that the battle for women's rights is not over, especially not globally, and that the moral imperative of our century is to achieve full rights for everyone regardless of gender.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.