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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.

Robin Morgan

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
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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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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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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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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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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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 women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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