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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
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Feminist
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Poet
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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