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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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Poet
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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