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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
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Robin Evonne Morgan
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