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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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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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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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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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