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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Fully
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Life
Profligacy
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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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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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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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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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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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Women are a colonized people.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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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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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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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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