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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
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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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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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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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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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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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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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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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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