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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
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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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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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
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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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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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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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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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