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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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