By Robin Morgan
As an activist for social justice, Robin Morgan has bought a name for powerful convictions and a life-affirming approach of expressing them via writing. Nowhere is that this extra obtrusive than in Going Too Far, which takes us behind the curtain in Morgan’s lifestyles and within the women’s circulation till 1977. We watch the improvement of an organizer who's a fancy philosopher whereas Morgan evolves as a mom, chief, author, and activist.
Morgan’s willing eye is proficient on all facets of contemporary feminism, and this can be mirrored within the juxtaposition of the magazine entries and letters of her own lifestyles with the essays and polemics that form her public personality. Her evaluations on marriage, love, faith, pornography, and paintings are as completely clean and well timed this present day as they have been a long time in the past. Her transforming into knowledge and intensity of belief are obvious within the book’s development, and her final chapters, all for what she phrases the “metaphysics of feminism,” will swap a reader’s global view for the better—and forever.
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And also, more humbly, this process, this Women’s Movement, has given me the chance to travel through it, to witness the splendor of women’s faces all over America blossoming with hope, to hear women’s voices rising in an at-first fragile, then stronger chorus of anger and determination. Pocatello, Idaho, and Escanaba, Michigan, and Lawrence, Kansas, and Sarasota, Florida, and Northampton, Massachusetts, and Sacramento, California, and Portales, New Mexico—and how many others? It has exhausted me, this Women’s Movement, and sometimes made me cranky and guilty and gossipy and manipulative and self-pitying and self-righteous and sour.
And I will love him enough, and more. And that will make everything possible. M. 1 I had been working, primarily in theater and television, since the age of two, managing to extricate myself from this busy precocity when I was sixteen. 2 At the time of this letter’s writing I had given up hope of reconciling my mother to my marriage, and had not spoken to her for over a year (it would be two more years before we resumed knowing one another). During the middle sixties, K.
This process has given me the tools, as well, to affirm the women I love, to help raise the child I love in new and freer ways. I have now curled round another spiral, and can admit that I like good food and enjoy cooking it (when that’s not assumed to be my reason for existing). I have found my own appearance at last. No more “uniforms,” but clothes that are comfortable, pleasant, and me: hair that I cut or let grow as I choose, unconforming to fashion as dictated by Vogue or its inverse image, Rolling Stone.