Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Morgan

The line works because it refuses the respectable scale of ambition. “Impossible” is the shiny prize everyone claims to want; “absurd” is the social cost that keeps most people from reaching for it. Robin Morgan, a feminist activist shaped by the second-wave era’s confrontations with law, labor, and the body, frames progress as something that begins in the realm of ridicule. If you are trying to change a system that calls itself “common sense,” your first moves will look irrational by design.

The gendered “she” is not decorative. It’s a declaration about who is expected to be practical, grateful, and quiet. Morgan flips that expectation: women’s alleged “unrealistic” demands become the engine of history. The phrase “attempts the absurd” also smuggles in a theory of power. Institutions maintain themselves by policing imagination; they label transformative requests as childish, extreme, hysterical. The subtext is tactical: embrace the smear, because the smear is evidence you’re targeting something real.

“Attempt” matters, too. It doesn’t promise victory; it honors the risk and the public failure that activism often requires. The impossible is less a miracle than a byproduct of stubborn repetition: consciousness-raising groups, marches, disruptive speech, legal fights that looked laughable until they didn’t. Morgan’s sentence is a permission slip to be unfashionable, to endure mockery, to treat “absurd” not as a warning sign but as a compass needle pointing toward the next frontier of the possible.