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We are the women men warned us about.

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Women
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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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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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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Women are a colonized people.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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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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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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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