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We are the women men warned us about.
Robin Morgan
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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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Women are a colonized people.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.
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I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
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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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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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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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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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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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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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