Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Morgan

Marriage is the kind of institution that masquerades as private romance while operating as public policy. Robin Morgan’s provocation lands because it refuses the comforting idea that gender inequity is mainly a matter of attitudes, “bad men,” or insufficient sensitivity training. She’s pointing at infrastructure: a legal and cultural machine that, for centuries, turned women into dependents, unpaid laborers, and sexual property with a halo.

The intent is not to sneer at love; it’s to strip marriage of its PR. Morgan speaks from a radical feminist tradition that treated the family as a core site of political domination, not a neutral refuge from it. In that context, “destroy” is strategic exaggeration: a demand to stop tinkering at the margins and confront the root arrangement that assigns roles, rewards, and vulnerabilities by gender. The subtext is blunt: as long as marriage remains the default pathway to social legitimacy and economic security, women will be pressured into bargains that look voluntary but are structured by unequal pay, childcare expectations, and the social penalty for opting out.

What makes the line work is its inversion of the usual reform script. Instead of asking marriage to become fair, it indicts marriage as a key producer of unfairness. The quote also anticipates the way institutions adapt: even “egalitarian” marriages can replicate old patterns because the surrounding world still treats mothers as the backup parent and wives as the household manager.

You can disagree with Morgan’s absolutism and still feel the charge: equality isn’t only won by changing minds; it’s won by changing the contracts that shape daily life.