Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Morgan

A warning that starts like a parental cliche and ends like a manifesto. Robin Morgan takes the familiar safety script - "don't accept rides from strange men" - and snaps it into a broader indictment: the category of "strange" isn't an exception, it's the rule. The line’s power is how it weaponizes dark humor. "Strange as hell" isn’t a sociological claim; it’s a vernacular verdict, the kind you say when politeness has stopped protecting you.

The intent is protective, but not paternal. Morgan isn’t asking women to shrink their lives; she’s naming a world organized around male entitlement, where danger often arrives wearing normal clothes. By collapsing the distinction between the creepy stranger and the "nice guy", she highlights a feminist reality: violence and coercion aren’t random glitches committed by monsters, they’re predictable outcomes of social permission. The subtext is that conventional advice fails because it individualizes risk ("be careful") while leaving the system intact ("men will be men").

Context matters: Morgan’s activism emerges from second-wave feminism, a period when consciousness-raising insisted that private experiences - harassment, assault, everyday fear - were political evidence. The quote reads like consciousness-raising compressed into a single punchline: if the culture trains men to treat women’s bodies as public property, then "strangeness" is not a personality quirk; it’s a learned sense of access. It works because it’s funny in the way survival is funny: blunt, a little profane, and too true to be comfortable.