"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
"Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification."
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Source: Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.84, Open Road Media
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