Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan’s line is a small demolition charge placed under a big cultural alibi. “Women are not inherently passive or peaceful” refuses the flattering stereotype that has long doubled as a leash: if women are “naturally” gentle, then anger looks like a defect, ambition reads as unseemly, and resistance gets recoded as hysteria. Morgan’s intent is bluntly political. She’s not praising aggression; she’s attacking the idea that women’s social role is an extension of biology.

The subtext is a warning about how “peaceful femininity” gets weaponized. Patriarchy doesn’t only police women with fear; it also recruits them with moral branding. The “good woman” is the one who absorbs harm quietly, who keeps families, workplaces, and movements stable by swallowing conflict. Morgan calls that bargain what it is: a story told to keep women useful and controllable. By stripping “peaceful” of its halo, she clears space for female rage as rational, even necessary, and for political violence as a question of conditions and choices rather than essence.

Context matters: second-wave feminism was battling both legal inequity and the softer tyranny of expectations. In the era of antiwar protest, civil rights struggle, and feminist organizing, women were often cast as the movement’s conscience - supportive, nurturing, nonthreatening. Morgan flips that script. The sentence doesn’t ask permission to be complex; it asserts complexity as a fact. And it dares the listener to stop confusing women’s enforced silence with consent.