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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
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Poet
Political Scientist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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