Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan’s line lands like a refusal to play a rigged game: if identity has been turned into a courtroom, she’s rejecting the prosecution’s favorite evidence. “Inherently” is the pressure point. It’s the word used to naturalize hierarchies - inherently weaker, inherently nurturing, inherently rational, inherently suited to rule. Morgan, writing from the heat of second-wave feminism and its battles over biology, labor, and “women’s nature,” disarms that whole vocabulary by stripping it down to the one category that can’t be cleanly weaponized without exposing the cruelty: human.

The subtext isn’t that differences don’t exist; it’s that the political meaning of those differences is manufactured, then sold back to us as fate. This is an activist’s sentence, built for coalition. It invites a widening of the frame: if we’re “not inherently anything” beyond human, then the moral baseline is shared, and the burden of proof shifts to institutions that justify unequal treatment as “natural.” It also quietly warns movements against becoming what they oppose. Any politics that hardens identity into destiny - even with benevolent intent - risks recreating the same essentialism feminism set out to dismantle.

The genius is its austerity. No slogans, no enemies named, no sentimental plea. Just a clean reset button: before gender, race, class, or nation are turned into alibis, there is the human person, and all the obligations that word smuggles in.