Morgan worked from toddlerhood as a model, radio host, and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s (such as on the series Mama)l
In her memoir Saturday’s Child, she referenced the old saying that a Saturday’s child has to work for a living, emphasizing that she earned her own way through decades of writing and editing.
While the royalties from her landmark 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful were substantial enough to allow her to fund the Sisterhood Is Powerful Fund (the first feminist grant-giving foundation in the U.S.), the money was turned over as seed capital to support early women’s liberation groups rather than retained for personal enrichment.