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1941–2026 United States

Robin Evonne Morgan (January 3, 1941 – September 5, 2026) was an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she was a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement.

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Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (1977)

I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.

Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape (1974)

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

[N]o one appeared to wonder whether this S-M proliferation was a lesbian copy of a faggot imitation of patriarchal backlash against feminism.

I feel that "man-hating" is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. And although there are exceptions (as in everything), i.e., men who are trying to be traitors to their own male class, most men cheerfully affirm their deadly class privileges and power. And I hate that class.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robin Morgan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.