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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
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Feminist
Journalist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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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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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 egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding 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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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