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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
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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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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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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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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Women are a colonized people.
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