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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
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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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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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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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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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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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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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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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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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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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Women are a colonized people.
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