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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
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Feminist
Journalist
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Poet
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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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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... 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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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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Women are a colonized people.
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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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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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A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.
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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.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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