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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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... 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 women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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Women are a colonized people.
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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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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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