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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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Women are a colonized people.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.
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When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.
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people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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