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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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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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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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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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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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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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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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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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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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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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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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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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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